EXT HDD issue after scan disk, now prompts to format??

BBedding said:

I tried to rebuild the MBR and the software went through the motions but it has not changed.

I tried to recover the old partition and I can now see the old partition but not in my computer.

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Not sure what to do now?

Try to go back to this state. And recover that partition. Post screenshot

BBedding said:

I ran seatools for dos and set the drive to max and it now show up 803gb unallocated in disk management.


I currently have mini power data recovery scanning for the lost partition.

Hopefully it works.

I hope seatools didn't actually write on the paritition. Was the 1 disk one large partition containing all space? So not lost but has become smaller and RAW?

I think it was original 1 lare partition on that disk as you posted before

Strange it's a 128GB disk holding a 931.5GB partition

BBedding said:

The 128GB Raw was there prior to me using seatools and the 803gb appeared after.

But was it originally (before you had problems) a 931GB physical disk with 1 large partition containing all disk space?

BBedding said:

Correct it was the elements portion 931.5GB.

Then searching for lost partition is useless!! The partition isn't lost but corrupt start and end point. It's turned to type RAW because windows/partition wizard and so on don't understand the file system. Partition is useless now. Steps to do:

• start partition wizard and delete the partition. This only deletes the start and end point in partition table. All stuff will still be on disk!
• press apply
• Now do a partition recovery as explained on How to activate Partition Recovery Wizard of partition magic? Partition Wizard Partition Recovery Wizard Video Help. . Scan "unallocated space" only (all space is unallocated). And do a "quick scan". If it finds small stuff like 3MB partitions... ignore them. Does it find the partition you want? If so, recover it.

Of course APPLY the changes. Do you really want it to be a primary partition? Do you really want it ACTIVE? Is it a boot or OS partition?

BBedding said:

Kaktussoft your a legend !! Thankyou so much.

The drive is back.!

Should I look at saving all my data elsewhere and getting rid of this drive?

Partition was back in a few seconds (after deleting it) when doing the partition recovery .... was it?

Run seatools and check your drive for errors. If no errors... I don't know why it happened. If seatools doesn't find errors ... drive should be fine