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 Post subject: Recovering meta/file system for WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
PostPosted: September 6th, 2024, 13:34 
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I used Deepspar DDI to recover an image of this drive and loaded it into R-Studio. The RAW recovery looks great in terms of what it's actually recovered, but the original file system is missing and all the files have generic raw naming. Does anyone what step I can take or should have taken to get a recovery keeping the file system and naming all intact?


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 Post subject: Re: Recovering meta/file system for WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
PostPosted: September 7th, 2024, 16:19 
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If the file system's metadata have been destroyed, then you won't be able to recover any file/folder names.

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 Post subject: Re: Recovering meta/file system for WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
PostPosted: September 8th, 2024, 16:55 
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FixNMod wrote:
I used Deepspar DDI to recover an image of this drive and loaded it into R-Studio. The RAW recovery looks great in terms of what it's actually recovered, but the original file system is missing and all the files have generic raw naming. Does anyone what step I can take or should have taken to get a recovery keeping the file system and naming all intact?


You basically tell us nothing other than you created a disk image and R-Studio gives RAW results only. We don't even know what original file system is supposed to be or what happened to the drive. For all we know you could have disabled the file system in R-Studio.

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 Post subject: Re: Recovering meta/file system for WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
PostPosted: September 10th, 2024, 11:23 
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Arch Stanton wrote:
FixNMod wrote:
I used Deepspar DDI to recover an image of this drive and loaded it into R-Studio. The RAW recovery looks great in terms of what it's actually recovered, but the original file system is missing and all the files have generic raw naming. Does anyone what step I can take or should have taken to get a recovery keeping the file system and naming all intact?


You basically tell us nothing other than you created a disk image and R-Studio gives RAW results only. We don't even know what original file system is supposed to be or what happened to the drive. For all we know you could have disabled the file system in R-Studio.


The file system was NTFS. The drive was supposedly clicking and wouldn't show up in Windows, but I didn't hear it. I just created the image in DDI and the scan on it in R-Studio only gave a raw partition. I'm honestly hoping for something simple as checking a toggle in R-Studio or the DDI.


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 Post subject: Re: Recovering meta/file system for WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
PostPosted: September 11th, 2024, 23:44 
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Go back to DDI and check sector 6,293,504, that is where the MFT (NTFS file system) usually begins. If there's a big chunk of unreadable sectors around there, that would explain why its not picking up the file system.


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