Iomega External HDD Raw format FAT 32

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Jaycornyn

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Hello.

I have an 2TB Iomega external HDD that has become RAW formatted. The HDD is divided in two. One FAT32 partition and one NTFS both have aprox. 900GB. The problem is with the FAT32 partition.
When I connect the HDD NTFS shows up and works perfectly but FAT32 asks to be reformatted. In disk manager it says (H:) 931.51 GB RAW, Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)

I tried changing the HDD letter.
I have tried CHKDSK with no help.
I have tried Recuva with no help.
I have tried testdisk with results of 'no file found filesystem may be damaged'. I have tried rebuild BS but this hasn't worked.

What other options do I have?

Thanks.

Jay
 
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It appears that the drive has errors near the beginning. DMDE can read sector 0, which is where the partition table resides, but it cannot read sector 3.

I think that the only realistic DIY opportunity would be to clone as much of the drive as possible using a tool such as ddrescue which understands how to work around bad media. Then run data recovery software against the clone.

Depending on the drive inside the enclosure, there may be a way to disable reallocation and retries at the firmware level. This would greatly improve the chances for a successful recovery.

http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29187&start=20

http://www.alexsoft.org/viewtopic.php?t=998&p=4345#p4345

http://malthus.mooo.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=557...
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Jaycornyn

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Hello.
Thanks for your reply. I ran DMDE and got this error.

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It then showed this

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It appears that the drive has errors near the beginning. DMDE can read sector 0, which is where the partition table resides, but it cannot read sector 3.

I think that the only realistic DIY opportunity would be to clone as much of the drive as possible using a tool such as ddrescue which understands how to work around bad media. Then run data recovery software against the clone.

Depending on the drive inside the enclosure, there may be a way to disable reallocation and retries at the firmware level. This would greatly improve the chances for a successful recovery.

http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29187&start=20

http://www.alexsoft.org/viewtopic.php?t=998&p=4345#p4345

http://malthus.mooo.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=557

http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=557
 
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