- Nov 18, 2013
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Hello everyone,
I was trying to run a backup to my external HDD (298GB) and the computer crashed and restarted, thus causng a CRC on my HDD.
I can no longer explore the HDD or format it. The error caused the format to go from NTFS to RAW and I know that means that the HDD now has lost/damaged partitions. I've already tried chkdsk, diskpart, Recuvia and even testdisk. I've also tried formatting the HDD directly from "Disk Manager" but none of these worked (I think perhaps there's a feature in testdisk that I still havn't tried, but I don't know. It was my first time using it). But I followed the step by step instructions for testdisk and it reported a "read error".
I'm not worried about any of the data on the HDD so i'm not interested in trying to retrieve, salvage or recover any files. I just want it formatted from RAW back to NTFS. I've been at war with this thing for six long grueling days now and I'm running on no sleep here..
So far I havn't found any software that can even read the corrupted HDD let alone format it back to NTFS.
it IS detectable however. I can see it appear in "my computer" and in testdisk, but neither of these can read/scan the HDD. I am pretty sure that my BIOS settings are correct because the volume of the HDD was correctly displayed in the list of drives in testdisk. I think if I can find a program that can at least read it I can restore the partitions myself the way testdisk was supposed to.. or if it can help me reformat the HDD altogether that would be great.
Sorry for this long story, but can someone help me, PLEASE?? I'm a nervous wreck over here.. (0~0)
I was trying to run a backup to my external HDD (298GB) and the computer crashed and restarted, thus causng a CRC on my HDD.
I can no longer explore the HDD or format it. The error caused the format to go from NTFS to RAW and I know that means that the HDD now has lost/damaged partitions. I've already tried chkdsk, diskpart, Recuvia and even testdisk. I've also tried formatting the HDD directly from "Disk Manager" but none of these worked (I think perhaps there's a feature in testdisk that I still havn't tried, but I don't know. It was my first time using it). But I followed the step by step instructions for testdisk and it reported a "read error".
I'm not worried about any of the data on the HDD so i'm not interested in trying to retrieve, salvage or recover any files. I just want it formatted from RAW back to NTFS. I've been at war with this thing for six long grueling days now and I'm running on no sleep here..
So far I havn't found any software that can even read the corrupted HDD let alone format it back to NTFS.it IS detectable however. I can see it appear in "my computer" and in testdisk, but neither of these can read/scan the HDD. I am pretty sure that my BIOS settings are correct because the volume of the HDD was correctly displayed in the list of drives in testdisk. I think if I can find a program that can at least read it I can restore the partitions myself the way testdisk was supposed to.. or if it can help me reformat the HDD altogether that would be great.
Sorry for this long story, but can someone help me, PLEASE?? I'm a nervous wreck over here.. (0~0)
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