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stuartmcalpine   11-27-2008 at 11:07:16 PM

Hello,

My Vista PC shut down on me recently and when I restarted it said I needed to do a system repair. I done this and now Vista is working, but it is saying my D: and F: partitions are RAW. Previously they were NTFS and FAT and both hold documents.

I followed the instruction to export, delete and rebuild the boot sector here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392. Still, the are RAW.

I then downloaded TestDisk and put it to a USB stick to try and recover the data, but when I insert the USB drive it is also saying that the USB drive is RAW.

Does anyone have any ideas what is going on or how I might be able to diagnose the problem? The partitions have important data on there that isn't backed up as I was working on it the day of the fault.

(The kick in the nuts is that I created the partitions so that I could keep the data if there was an OS error and I needed to reformat C:!)

Cheers,

Stuart

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chookman   11-28-2008 at 12:51:20 AM
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Try and run a chkdsk on the volumes

chkdsk d: /v /r /x

This will sometimes pickup the file system and repair it.

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stuartmcalpine   11-28-2008 at 02:43:21 AM
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Cheers chookman,

I'll try that tomorrow. For now I have put the drive in a usb enclosure and plugged it in another laptop. All partitions are recognised up fine so I'm getting the data off while I can then I'll have a look at what I can do.

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Seth John   10-23-2009 at 07:50:51 AM
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If you fail in chkdsking, you may try to use some tool to help you.

A corrupt or missing boot sector will cause such kind of problem.

To fix the boot sector, you may refer to How to Fix the Boot Sector Problem?

If it still cannot be solved, you have to recover all the data out and then format the partition as the system indicates so that you can enter the partition again.

How to Recover Data from Raw Hard Drive?

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