Hard disk suddenly became RAW. What to do?

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Hard disk suddenly became RAW. What to do?

#1 Post by sermed »

it is my internal hard disk suddenly this message appeared at boot
(A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart )

I have connected it as external hd to another laptop . I can see the partitions but it asks me

to format it and when i want to make chkdsk it says not supported for RAW .

I have connected my hard to Puppy Linux it has read my hard drive partitions but displayed error message .
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#2 Post by p310don »

Can you copy from the drive to a good drive?

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#3 Post by Makoto »

Since the drive is formatted in NTFS, if you have access to a Windows system (XP or higher), you should probably try to access the drive in Windows and then run a scandisk/chkdsk on it.
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#4 Post by sermed »

In windows it asks me to format the hard disk partitons , and when i apply chkdsk it says not available for raw/ please is there any way to getmy data?

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#5 Post by p310don »

Maybe you need to give testdisk a try...

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/testdisk

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#6 Post by 01micko »

Since you can get read only access copy as much stuff as you can while within Puppy. I gather you aren't backed up.

Make sure you have media as large as what the space is taken up on the offending drive to copy to, suggest a usb2 hard drive for fastest transfer or through a fast ethernet connection to a place on your LAN (if available).

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Hard disk suddenly became RAW. What to do?

#7 Post by Monsie »

Hi sermed,

You can also try ntfsfix command at the terminal:

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~# ntfsfix -help
ntfsfix v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)

Usage: ntfsfix [options] device
    Attempt to fix an NTFS partition.

    -h, --help             Display this help
    -V, --version          Display version information

For example: ntfsfix /dev/sda6
This won't fix all errors in a partition necessarily, but it is worth a try.

Hope this helps,
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#8 Post by sermed »

01micko wrote:Since you can get read only access copy as much stuff as you can while within Puppy. I gather you aren't backed up.

Make sure you have media as large as what the space is taken up on the offending drive to copy to, suggest a usb2 hard drive for fastest transfer or through a fast ethernet connection to a place on your LAN (if available).

Good Luck!

How can I MAKE A BACKUP PLEASE PLEASE

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#9 Post by sermed »

I have ran ntfsfix /dev/sda6


says :

failed to startup volume : input /output error
volume is corrupt you should run chkdsk

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#10 Post by p310don »

How did you get to the first picture you put up?

It is clearly seeing things on the drive. Can you drag and drop things from that drive to a working drive?

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#11 Post by sermed »

I have dragged some files but an error occurred an stopped the transfer

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