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Recently my seagate freeagent GO 500gb drive malfunctioned somehow and now I can't
access it. Having tried many things over the past few days and trying it on different machines,
both internally and via USB, I just discovered that the partition has been deleted and the drive
is now RAW. For some reason windows 7 machines very very rarely detect the drive, but
windows xp seems to do so and keep it detected.
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Anytime partition changes are made, you risk losing data which is why you should always
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CoreyRS said:
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Try running easeus partition recovery and see what it finds. If the partition information looks
correct then let it make the changes. If the software lets you make a backup of the current
partition table, do this first.
quesionboy
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nikoli707
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The files are still on the drive. I've scanned it with Recuva and all the files are still there. Since
the partition has been deleted, if I use software such as Easeus Partition Recovery to recover
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I think the issue is on the partition table, you'd better fix the partition table first, before use
third party recovery software you should notice that, the more times of rewriting to your hard
disk the harder it will be recovered.
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abdulla846
quesionboy said:
I think the issue is on the partition table, you'd better fix the partition table first,
before use third party recovery software you should notice that, the more times of
rewriting to your hard disk the harder it will be recovered.
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Quote:
...For some reason windows 7 machines very very rarely detect the drive, but
windows xp seems to do so and keep it detected.
mykl_74
FireWire2 said:
Quote:
...For some reason windows 7 machines very very rarely detect the drive,
but windows xp seems to do so and keep it detected.
FireWire2 is correct. I have an external storage device with 7TB of data on it, showing up as
RAW. I just assigned it a drive letter, and all the data is again accessible. Thanks FireWire2!
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FireWire2
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I'm glad that help... BTW this does apply to USB drive too
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kspanks04
I'm having a similar problem and EASUS PR finds my deleted partition but the proceed button
is greyed out and I cannot continue.
I also tried using ACRONIS, but the program wouldn't even open unless I unplugged my hard
drive.
Any ideas?
Edit: JK I didn't realize that was a progress bar at the bottom because it was moving so slow.
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cb3000
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283116-32-recover-ntfs-partition-drive
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FireWire2 said:
Quote:
...For some reason windows 7 machines very very rarely detect the
drive, but windows xp seems to do so and keep it detected.
FireWire2 is correct. I have an external storage device with 7TB of data on it, showing
up as RAW. I just assigned it a drive letter, and all the data is again accessible. Thanks
FireWire2!
Sorry guys, but when trying to assign a new letter, the option is not available. Its there but
not clickable. what to do next then? I have a 500GB USB HDD and in risk of losing a lot
valuable data in there. thxs
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cb3000 said:
mykl_74 said:
FireWire2 said:
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FireWire2 is correct. I have an external storage device with 7TB of data on it,
showing up as RAW. I just assigned it a drive letter, and all the data is again
accessible. Thanks FireWire2!
Sorry guys, but when trying to assign a new letter, the option is not available. Its
there but not clickable. what to do next then? I have a 500GB USB HDD and in risk of
losing a lot valuable data in there. thxs
It shows up in DM, then you should able to assign the drive letter
There much more than what you said...
Does the drive show as offline?
Does the drive show as RAW?
Does the drive show as Unavailable?
A capture image would be good
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atifkerry
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283116-32-recover-ntfs-partition-drive
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FireWire2 said:
cb3000 said:
mykl_74 said:
FireWire2 said:
Quote:
Sorry guys, but when trying to assign a new letter, the option is not available.
Its there but not clickable. what to do next then? I have a 500GB USB HDD and
in risk of losing a lot valuable data in there. thxs
It shows up in DM, then you should able to assign the drive letter
There much more than what you said...
Does the drive show as offline?
Does the drive show as RAW?
Does the drive show as Unavailable?
A capture image would be good
I have the same problem, my partitions shows unallocated, please advise how to fix this and
restore partition table.
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FireWire2
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If you have an unallocated HDD, time to look for a recovery tools like R-Stutio or other data
recovery utiltity. The above procedure only for partition shows as "RAW"
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Eric-Ludwig
FireWire2 said:
Quote:
...For some reason windows 7 machines very very rarely detect the drive,
but windows xp seems to do so and keep it detected.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283116-32-recover-ntfs-partition-drive
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Eric-Ludwig
My drive is showing up as RAW but already has a drive letter. When I select "add" it only lets
me embed it into another drive which doesn't work. When I assign it a new drive letter it still
shows up as raw. The computer insists that it needs to be formatted before it can be used
and this comes up when I try to give it a new drive letter. My choices are to either format or
hit cancel. It does go ahead and change the drive letter but nothing else happens.
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FireWire2
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Eric-Ludwig said:
My drive is showing up as RAW but already has a drive letter. When I select "add"
it only lets me embed it into another drive which doesn't work. When I assign it a new
drive letter it still shows up as raw. The computer insists that it needs to be formatted
before it can be used and this comes up when I try to give it a new drive letter. My
choices are to either format or hit cancel. It does go ahead and change the drive letter
but nothing else happens.
Can you give more detail about the issue that you have?
- Move from what OS to what OS?
- What is interface that you use on other system and the system has issue?
... the more detail are better :-)
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Derek Herbage
FireWire2 said:
Eric-Ludwig said:
Can you give mreo detail about the issue that you have?
- Move from what OS to what OS?
- What is interface that you use on other system and the system has issue?
... the more detail are better :-)
I am having a similar problem, my laptop crashed with a 500GB HDD, I connected it to another
machine and it shows up as raw, has drive letters assigned to it but I cant access the drive as
when I click on either og the 2 partitions it tells me to format to continue.
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