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after partition recovery windows shows raw file system?!

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:22 pm
by disaster
Hi!

I have a WD MyBook Essential 1TB, which device somehow deleted the existing partition (there was only 1). I was able to recover all my files with R-Studio before using EASEUS Partition Master.
Now after the partition recovery - EASEUS told me it was successfull - the recovery softwers recognise my partition as an usual NTFS file system and both R-Studio and UFSExplorer can read the whole content without any further scans, but not the OS. It shows RAW file system.
How could be solved this issue? (without formatting, so I don't have to copy again 850GB data, since the MFT is probably ok)

Thanks in advance.



(firmware is the latest version, OS is win7)

Re: after partition recovery windows shows raw file system?!

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:01 am
by Alt
Apparently, Partition Master has created the MBR of bootrecord of the disk incorrectly. My recommendation is strict - reformat the disk using Windows and copy the files back. It may be a lengthy process, but it's safe.
There are some measures in Windows that might heal the problem but I don't recommend you to use them, if you are interested in the result rather than in the process.