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4TB Seagate drive in enclosure suddenly became RAW
Hi,
I have a 4TB seagate drive that turned RAW today Want me to format it...
After a couple hours of reading, i found that i have the same problem as this guy :
External HDD suddenly requires formatting, read as RAW instead of ntfs
Jumanji helped him alot and in his post (page 6 of the included link), this note seems to be important but i don't know Bootice at all and it's all gibberish to me. Could someone help me understanding what he meant by this :
As a natural corollary of the above exercise I would suggest the following to the OP.
1. Check the last sectors of your Disk from n to n-32 with Bootice. If you find that the GPT backup exists in those sectors, I would say you have struck gold.
2. Save each sector starting from n to n-32.
3. Restore the nth sector to LBA 1 (sector 1), n-1 to LBA 2 and so on till you complete n-32 to LBA 33.
Effectively you would have restored the GPT, and Windows 7 should be able to see your drive as before.
I would be very grateful if someone could do a step by step to do this with pictures maybe using Bootice.
Thank you in advance
Last edited by NatashaR; 28 Mar 2015 at 18:19.