RAW File System
Okay CP IT gurus, I'm in need of some help.
So back when I was a touring musician, my band had purchased a Lacie d2 - Triple Interface and it was used with Windows XP and OSX Tiger. Had all our photos, Pro Tools files, live videos from shows - the whole nine yards. Going through some boxes in the garage, I found the hard drive, but it's not being recognized by Windows 7, 10 or OS Sierra. There are no drivers online available for it, the LaCie Update Tool for Mac doesn't work but I was able to assign it a letter on my Windows 7 laptop and now it's listed as a RAW file type. I downloaded EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard to see if there were files on there and everything is still there, but it's $80 for a one-time licence. Is there any other way I could extract the data from the hard drive? Perhaps find an old XP PC on craigslist? A trick to get my laptop to recognize the hard drive? Or am I stuck paying the $80 for the files? |
raw means that it's not formatted
it must be formatted for windows to see the data structure so, without a special data recovery program, you probably won't be able to do anything it looks like you're stuck with trying EaseUS 1) The EaseUS Recovery Wizard has a free trial. Did you download and try it yet? 2) The software is on sale right now for $69 |
you probably already found this, but:
http://www.easeus.com/resource/raw-f...em-to-ntfs.htm Try the free trial man |
I googled and found this
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Do you know how the drive was originally partitioned? What does OS X Disk Utility say? I'd attempt recovery via OS X instead of Windows 7. Win7 cannot read OS X partitions, but OS X can read Win7 NTFS/FAT32 partitions. I'd launch Disk Utility in OS X, and see what it says regarding the drive. If it can see the partitions, you may be able to recover data with an app like DiskWarrior.
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if its raw you need to recover the data, sticking it in another PC wont work as it will be raw there as well. It may just boot files damaged, but its really easier if you just go ahead and get the data off before you start writing files to it.
Try Recuva out, its made by the same people who do CCleaner. |
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But Win10 prior to Anniversary Update, as well as previous versions of Windows would still see those drives properly, so long as you DIDN'T attempt recovery or otherwise muck around with it in an OS environment that didn't recognize it. |
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I could see there was a hard drive plugged in, but I can't access the drive. Would Disk Warrior allow me to do that? |
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Here's a thread from when this happened to me due to power outage [separate incident from the Win10 update issue. I ended up using EaseUs, but it wasn't a perfect solution.
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...light=raw+ntfs This is pretty much the best advice, at least for the moment. Assuming you don't have an ultra-urgent need for the space or the data Quote:
Here's the thread from the AU episode. This time I didn't touch the drives, and MS eventually fixed the issue on their end. http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthrea...versary+update |
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Linux has tools that allow you to simply delete and recreate a partition. I do it from time to time when I've expanded a disk and want to resize the partition and then the filesystem. I don't know of how you can do that in Windows. Searching seemed to come back with testdisk. Never really heard of it. There are some other suggestions too https://superuser.com/questions/1337...osing-the-data I've never used it but I know some people boot to gparted when they need to resize a root drive that someone didn't create with LVM. It's a graphical interface so thats nicer than command line http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ I'd just try to get to the data and copy it somewhere else. Linux doesn't require a partition to access a filesystem so hopefully you can just copy your data off w/ the below instructions under Attempting Data rescue http://gparted.sourceforge.net/displ...me=help-manual Realized these were all sourceforge. For a while they served up malware but I believe they've gone back legit. Here is a link right to gparted themselves it appears http://gparted.org/livecd.php |
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I'll try today to check it out when I get a chance. Is DiskWarrior free software? |
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