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File system has changed from NTFS to Raw - Problem and solution

Sat, 2011-08-06 16:42 | SergeChel

If your NTFS file system has changed to RAW - that's probably because your drive partition table has broken. But your data is still there and you can get it back to life. There are a lot hard drive utilites you can use - commercial and free, simple and multimegabyte fancy monsters. But this time I want to tell you about simple, but powerful command line utility, that solves your problem in a few seconds - TestDisk.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL v2+).

TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

  • Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
  • Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
  • Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
  • Fix FAT tables
  • Rebuild NTFS boot sector
  • Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
  • Fix MFT using MFT mirror
  • Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
  • Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
  • Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

 

- Run this utility with Administrator privileges

- Choose log options as you want

- Select hard drive from the list and choose to proceed

- Select Intel/PC partition table type

- Select Analyse

- Do a quick search

- Select lost partition from the list

- Select write to restore partition table data to your hard drive.

- You'll probably be asked to reboot.

 

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