Is it possible to restore this harddrive?


  1. confused1
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    Is it possible to restore this harddrive?


    I'm trying to restore some of the contents from my sister's laptop hard drive but, when I hook it up to my pc through the sata cable, here is what I get (see screenshot). I'd greatly appreciate any help.
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  3. whs
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    What exactly are you trying to do.
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  4. TVeblen
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    You will need to:

    • Recover the data from that partition using recovery software and temporarily storing it on a backup drive/partition
    • Format the RAW partition NTFS
    • Replace your saved data to that partition


    One solution here:
    How to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS without data loss?
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  6. confused1
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    TVeblen said:
    You will need to:

    • Recover the data from that partition using recovery software and temporarily storing it on a backup drive/partition
    • Format the RAW partition NTFS
    • Replace your saved data to that partition


    One solution here:
    How to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS without data loss?

    Thank you. Do you know if its normal for this to take a very long time? The drive is close to 600gb. I was three hours into it and it was only up to 1500 files found.
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  7. TVeblen
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    Yes. I'd expect it to take a long time.
    The program has to stitch together all the bits and pieces of each file that are strewn all over the hard disk.
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