RAW External Tera HDD after scan "chkdsk"

EngMina William

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please i need your help to solve the problem .. i had a problem in my external HDD 1 tera in two partition one is 970 GB other is the remain bytes then i got an error copying from or two "cannot copy due to hardware error " after searching i used the command for large partition called F "970 GB""chkdsk /f/r f:" and final result after 5 days is " 282840 files processed.

File data verification completed.

Stage 5: Looking for bad, free clusters ...


1950825 free clusters processed.

Free space verification is complete.
Adding 294069 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.

935766015 KB total disk space.
927555768 KB in 80291 files.
29536 KB in 16123 indexes.
1176276 KB in bad sectors.
377411 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
6627024 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
233941503 total allocation units on disk.
1656756 allocation units available on disk. " but the problem is that the HDD now not read normally other mean it show in disk management RAW not NTFS or FAT ... what shall i do and i wanna keep data on it .thanks
 
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Hey there, EngMina William.

Unfortunately you've learned the hard way that chkdsk may do that to your partition. :(
Your drive is in a pretty bad shape and will eventually fail, because of the bad sectors it has accumulated. Running chkdsk should always be preceded by a data backup, just in case something unexpected happens. While it tries to fix system errors or recover bad sectors, it may corrupt your data or the partition's file system (as it happened in your case).
For data recovery, I'd recommend that you try accessing the drive via Linux Live CD/USB, to see if it is recognized properly and if you can get to your files, or try some of the data recovery options from this thread...
Hey there, EngMina William.

Unfortunately you've learned the hard way that chkdsk may do that to your partition. :(
Your drive is in a pretty bad shape and will eventually fail, because of the bad sectors it has accumulated. Running chkdsk should always be preceded by a data backup, just in case something unexpected happens. While it tries to fix system errors or recover bad sectors, it may corrupt your data or the partition's file system (as it happened in your case).
For data recovery, I'd recommend that you try accessing the drive via Linux Live CD/USB, to see if it is recognized properly and if you can get to your files, or try some of the data recovery options from this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html
However, your best and most reliable option is - a data recovery company.

I really hope you're able to retrieve your files. Good luck!
Boogieman_WD
 
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