What should I do to make Windows recognize the NTFS partition, if it's all there, intact and apparently healthy enough to be read without sector-by-sector recovery passes? Should I let chkdsk H: /f run and maybe try to fix it? (I haven't tried yet, as I heard chkdsk destroys data in some fringe cases) So it seems all to be there.įrom the looks of it, I'd expect Windows to see the disk as an NTFS partition and maybe require a filesystem check - not see it as not formatted at all.ĭoes that mean that the disk is readable and fine, but somehow Windows can't access it? Or did Windows cache the MBR (as I have not rebooted the machine yet)? Or maybe I don't even need an MBR, since this is not a bootable drive, merely an external USB storage unit?
The partition is of type 07, so it's NTFS, starts at sector 2048, and actually the filesystem is still there - at offset 0x100000 (2048*512 sector size) a nice NTFS system starts. MiniTool, another recovery program, immediately noticed the disk, with a correct volume label and explorable contents, even without running a recovery pass, but the free version doesn't let me copy files.įinally, TestDisk is able to read the disk's contents without any problems, without running a specialized recovery pass - it accesses the NTFS system as if everything was fine.
and then it completely failed to find any files.ĬhkDsk H:, however, DOES detect it as NTFS and checks the filesystem (finding indexing errors in file descriptor 5, which is root folder ".", so thus far I only ran it in read-only mode out of caution). I tried using DiskInternals Partition Recovery, which indeed reported the drive being only seen as RAW, easily found a partition at sector 2048, spanning the full size of the disk, detected an NTFS system on it.
My external HDD suddenly started reporting as "931.51 GB RAW (Primary)" in Windows disk management.
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