Yesterday evening, after connecting my external hard drive to the computer, instead of the usual offer to "open the drive" the inscription popped up: "Reading is impossible, the drive is not formatted. Do you want to format?" We go to "my computer", and there instead of a disk there is just an icon and does not show either volume or anything. Open is not possible.
And I have the entire archive on this disk - photos, videos ... Having posted the topic on the drive, I was advised:
1. SNeron:
"Right-click on my computer - there choose the control.
In the window that opens on the left, select the disk manager.
Look for your drive and see logical drive Do you have any? Which file system shows?
For recovery, I also recommend the Get Data Back program. "
Then there is a great opportunity to recover data if you act as soon as possible. How can I do that? When it is not possible for the user and the operating system to recover deleted files, you must use special program. These programs specialize in data analysis and recovery.
Recovery deleted file for different types of operating system. To start the system file checker, follow these steps: When the check is complete, check to see if the problem you are experiencing has been fixed. If the problem you encountered was not resolved, use the procedure described in the "System Restore Tool" section.
Here is a screen shot of what SNeron was talking about:
The program really helped me, albeit for a long time, but copied all the necessary information, honor and praise to the developers for it.
Having tried different programs (TestDisk, Acronis, Recuva) decided to torment Windows - to look for where to enter codes. I tried to enter in the "Start - search string" combination: "chkdsk d: / f", where instead of the letter "d" you need to substitute the drive letter on which there are problems. This command launches error checking and correction of detected errors. Actually, it helped me.
p.s. If the combination does not work, then try to do the same in safe mode.
On the screenshots we see how the program works:
Sources of the problem
Using the System Restore tool does not necessarily help identify the problem. System Restore uses recovery points to restore files and system settings to their previous state. You can use it to restore the operating system to a state where you did not have a problem.
Other recovery examples are also available. If the main hard section disk contains operating systemmost likely it will no longer boot due to damage to the boot sector. If hDD is a secondary disk or you can connect it to another computer on your secondary channel on the controller, you will see the following symptoms.
And the result:
Many thanks to everyone who responded! Without you, I would shut up and format it. Last question: what to do with it now:
- Re-format (to complete or just do the cleaning)?
- Or leave it as it is?
Partition table type selection
Extract files from a compressed file, including subdirectories. To restore a partition from a media image or restore a image system file, follow.
The current state of the partition table
Now the structure of your current section is displayed. Examine missing sections and errors in the current section structure.Quick section search
The first section is repeated in the list because it indicates a damaged section or an invalid table of section entries. In the extended partition, only one logical partition is available. The logical partition has disappeared. When all sections are available and the data is listed correctly, you can go to the "Record" menu to save the section structure.
The section is still missing: a deeper search
After performing a deep search, the results are displayed as follows. The first section, “Section 1,” was found using a backup of the boot sector. “Section 2” appears twice in different sizes.Most often, the disk file system changes to RAW after the computer was turned off incorrectly, when the lights were turned off, or the user saved time and unplugged the system unit's power cord from the outlet. Another reason is viruses that change NTFS to RAW format. HDD drives. To fix this problem, read this article.
What is the RAW file system?
If the disk is received rAW format, Windows will display it among other partitions of the hard drive. But when you try to open the computer will give an error and offer to format it. In addition, any actions with this volume will be unavailable: checking for errors, defragmenting, etc. (it is useful to read "").
Partition table recovery
It works, found the correct section! Now all sections are registered in the partition table. Boot sectors not identical. The following message. All my photos, documents, favorites are gone. My computer is working fine except for my lost files.
Is there a way to recover all my files? If there are files that you do not want to lose, you must restore these files before starting the reset. If you didn’t take backup, you completely lose all your vital files. However, do not strain, be sure!
As such a file rAW systems does not exist. If the drive receives this formatting, it means that the computer driver is not able to determine the type of its file system - NTFS, FAT or FAT32. In practice, this happens in several cases:
- file system structure is damaged;
- section formatting not performed;
- there is no correct access to the contents of the volume.
If the volume with the OS is damaged, when the computer starts, the warnings “Reboot and select proper boot device” or “Operating System not found” will appear.
How to recover files after restoring system windows 8. In addition, using this utility you can execute both successfully and efficiently; To find out the full procedure, click on this link. To find out more, just use the trial version and view all your files before you even buy the tool! This option is the least invasive at the time of recovery.
He supports accounts, files and personal settings. Click the "Settings" button. This particular set of options available to users depends on how they are acquired. On this screen, you will need to confirm that you understand that you will need to reinstall your applications after recovery.
Recovery
If the problem arose on a non-system drive, but it contains important information that will disappear when formatting, use regular windows tools or third-party error correction software.
Windows Tools
Basically, the regular chkdsk utility helps to fix formatting problems in RAW.
This last screen will show the previous sequence before performing the restore. Click Recovery and select Advanced Launch. To restore and restore a system of files in logical units, since they can be partitions or others, we could use a tool for this.
How are disk and partition nomenclatures presented?
Figure 2: Primary partitions formatted in device manager. Figure 3: Deleting volumes without leaving the file format as “Unassigned”. Figure 5: Creating a log file. Figure 8: Analysis of the disk in question. Figure 11: Writing to disk to preserve partition structure order.
After checking, the computer will recover bad sectors and file nTFS system on the problem volume.
Important! This method is effective if the USB flash drive or hard drive was formatted in NTFS.
Also chkdsk utility will help when damaged system disk. But it will take boot disk or flash drive.
- Start the computer from a bootable USB flash drive or disk → Select System Restore.
- Advanced options -\u003e command line -\u003e enter chkdsk required drive letter: / f.
In a recovery environment, partition letters are different from logical drive names. In order not to make a mistake, open in command line list of computer partitions.
Over time, the cost of hardware becomes lower and its throughput increases, but if something important that we carry on our computers is the information posted there, so we can say, almost without fear, that the hard disk part which should bother us the most. Unfortunately, this is not always achieved, and many users leave their health at random until something bad happens, finally too late for regrets, and valuable documents, images, videos or even music are lost.
Type diskpart -\u003e list volume -\u003e the list will indicate which drive is the system drive.
Third party programs
There are third-party programs that help restore the NTFS file system if for some reason it was reformatted to RAW. They do not damage user information stored on the volume, unlike utilities chkdsk, which in the process of recovery may “hurt” them.
Of course, every distribution has a way to do something, so let's see how to configure it in the most important distributions. Then add a line to this file. First check the status of the current configuration by running. However, do not be fooled, and below we see other equally important parameters that are not so positive. Another is the “Check Interval”, which indicates the maximum time in months that we want to skip without performing this integrity check; If it is set to 0, as in my case it will not be taken into account.
