Formatting without deleting data?

[Kipz89]

One of my partitions is showing up as raw instead of ntfs and the computer sees it as corrupted. Is there any way that I can format it as ntfs without deleting and data? or is there a way that I can at least restore the data?

 

[g-paw]

While it's been a few years since I did, I think Partition Magic will do this without wiping out the data. It doesn't format the disk, just change to NTFS

 

[aziraphale]

errm....yes; that is so; but you'll need a recovery tool for the data to reappear. I suggest you try the one from the manufacturer...

 

[weskurtz81]

You can use a recovery tool and it will rebuild the partition with all data intact if the drive is still fine.

 

[gent]

http://www.getdata.com/

Never used it (much prefer Linux to Windose) so can't say how well it works, give the trial version a, err, trial and see what it says.

 

[Kipz89]

I checked the properties of the partition in partition magic and it said "bad file record signature"

 

[g-paw]

This is lengthy but probably worth the time. From Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457122.aspx