HELP!!! Need to convert RAW to NTFS!!!

Storm-cooled72 · Feb 13, 2015

Good day,

I need help. My hard drive for my laptop has lots of data on it, but since my laptop crashed, i cannot access it. Windows tells me it is a RAW file system, but i dunno what i should do. Any ideas on how to get my stuff recovered? I have already tried using a mac for this.

Thanks!

mbarnes86 · Feb 13, 2015

Hi

If data is really important get a data recovery expert to do work
Unfortunately expensive

If you can't afford the cost or data is not that important
First test hard drive using manufactures hard drive diagnostics for physical damage
If this passes test go onto data recovery
Hirens boot cd 1.52 has a selection of diagnostic programs for major hard disk brands

Then for trying to undo RAW status
Use testdisk /( photorec pair) to rebuild partition information

If that fails use photorec to recover some data files

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Or get a Linux distribution with this program installed on a bootable cd or usb

One step I should have mentioned is clone the hard drive before trying any data recovery programs then run recovery on cloned disk so you can several attempts with different recovery software
Obviously costs a new hard drive

Best of luck
Mike Barnes

PizzaTheHutt · Feb 13, 2015

I agree with mbarnes86, the only thing I would do differently is to try active@ partition recovery and see if it recovers the partitions that were lost.

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