Part of disk in Raw format

[Vostro]

Hello,

After a reinstall of W10 my 2nd harddisk (D:) is changed in a Raw-partition. What is the right way to recover my files?

Greetz, Marc

[ieee488]

a photo would help

[Vostro]

Hopefully this says enough?

[ieee488]

When the HP moderators approve the image, then everybody will be able to see it.

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[Vostro]

Oke thanks, let's wait for it. In the meantime i can tell you what i've done till now;

first of all we've cloned the D to an external usb-drive because on the D-partition there are a lot of photo's that i will recover.

We've run al lot of programs (EaseUs data Recovery, Wondershare Recoverit and Stellar Datarecovery) to try to save the photo's.

The result is that no application can read this jpg-files. all of them comes with errors

I've already tried the following things; Diskpart, partition manager, diskmanager, system diagnostics (checks with no faults) but no positive results yet.

[ieee488]

Is the D:\ partition physically a different drive?

I have re-installed Windows 10 numerous times, and it generally wipes the entire hard drive.  So what ever is there is lost.

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[Vostro]

Hi,

Yes, there are 2 drives in my laptop. The drive that partially is converted to Raw (D:) contains only personnal data. The 2nd partition (E:) contains the recovery software for windows. and this one looks oke.

[ieee488]

Since I am somewhat familiar with Linux, I would boot into Linux Mint and see  what Linux sees.

I honestly haven't  ever seen a partition that is "Raw".

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[WAWood]

@Vostro 

I seriously doubt any Linux distro is going to help you recover the files -- because "raw" in Windows terms means the partition table has become corrupted to the degree that Windows no longer recognizes it.

Your best bet for recovering data now is to do the following:
1) Remove the hard drive from the old PC
2) If you have a desktop PC with a spare hard drive connector, then connect the old drive to that -- both the power cable and the data cable. If you only have a notebook PC, then you will need to purchase a USB-to-Hard Driver adapter kit (like the one illustrated below)

3) Connect the old drive to a working PC,using that adapter if it is a laptop
4) Try to retrieve the files and folders you want to save from the old drive and copy them to the new PC.

If this does not work, then you need to do the following:
1) Download and install this utility on a working PC http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/recover_data_in_3_steps_with_minitool_power_data_recovery_free_...
2) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive.

If that tool does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva

And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the trial version is free http://www.file-recovery.com/