Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
January 29th, 2011, 14:24
Hallo everyone.
I have trouble with my ntfs sata disc, in external box. It is Samsung hm400li. Friend of mine was copying some stuff over, when the disc suddenly disconnected, unmounted and that was that. After plugging it back, Windows reports, the drive needs to be formatted and shows raw file system in the system management. I surely do not wish to format just now, as I have some important data on it. Tried one software (ZAR), which says, that only some 60% of the files it found, are valid and others are damaged. I also saw an article, about changing some hex values, to kind of re-establish the file system, although, that is a bit out of my grasp, also, I have no idea, how safe that is. Someone told me, it might backfire later. I also read of a guy, who was not able to re-format, from raw. So, all this, is kind of confusing for me. Can anyone point me in the right direction, so I can save my data and my disc?
Thank you
January 29th, 2011, 23:17
Yah it is easy you have more than likely a MBR or partition problem now on there. So clone it to another HDD first. After you can try to use a DR repair program for MBR and partitions. If this one does not work then you can use RStudio and find your data more than likely it will be raw recovery and you will have to rename and organize them again. If you can fix partition or mbr on the clone then you can get the data from this one. but if not you need to do raw file recovery on it. Then you can format you other HDD and wrtie back the data to it. Good luck