Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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Thanks! To give a little history, this was a 2TB data drive with a 240GB SSD OS drive in an all in one. I was just working one day and went to open a document in my data drive and it wouldn't open....
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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Drives don't just magically lose their formatting or get converted to "raw". RAW basically means the os (windows) doesn't recognize the format of the drive. If you plug a mac or linux formatted...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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I'd say it all depends on what was written to the disk when it was in RAW state. Basically your MBR and such is farked and so the OS doesn't know what file system, nor what files are or where. The...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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Nothing appears to work. :sadwalk:
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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Thanks! I'll try them both.
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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I ran into this problem with my old hard drive. My computer wouldn't boot up so i had to boot up with a spare hard drive and looked at disk management and saw it as raw and couldn't access it. I...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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I had my secondary partition disappear and turn to RAW format on a two-week old SSD yesterday.
I was able to recover it by doing a full scan with this tool: http://dmde.com/
It's not the most...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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Thanks! I tried most of those previously and unfortunately either they don't recognize the drive at all or they say to contact customer support when I try to scan them. Although I guess I'll try...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm
https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery-software/
https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
https://www.r-studio.com/
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Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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I stand corrected. Data Rescue PC3 actually does have a free trial. Maybe I'll try that when I get home.
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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Thank you. I'll see if I can connect it via SATA, but as mentioned, it's only a data drive and the OS drive it was originally working with may be shot as well.
BTW I believe I tried every one you...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
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I had this happen to a work drive before our company did routine backups. I wound up using a recovery software that scans the drive and basically rebuilds the MBR - that said, there may be files it...
Convert RAW data back to NTFS
Thread created 06-14-2018 by Joe Davola
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Sort of a continuation of my other thread. I've tried everything I could find on Google and YouTube and installed no less than a half dozen to a dozen partition programs to try and bring my old...
