SSD changed from NTFS to RAW ?

[paulstung]

Yesterday whilst I was out I was downloading a game, but during that process we had a power cut, and for some reason my D drive ( Kingston 120gb SSD ) changed itself to RAW ?

It is basically an empty drive so I tried to format, but Windows isn't letting me do it. I have been searching WWW land but there are so many different ways, but not one definitive answer, so can any of you pros out there shed any light onto this problem ? Cheers guys.

I should mention I'm in the middle of an EaseUS Data Recovery run as that pops up a lot as being pretty good. Also I've tried different SATA slots on the motherboard as well as changing cables, no dice, plus check disk reports no errors. Also in computer management it is stating that is 111.79 GB RAW Healthy ( primary partition )

 

[SuB]

that sounds a bit like the MBFT or whatever it's called has crapped itself...

 

[RamboOC]

WARNING: THIS WILL ERASE YOUR DATA ON SSD

Have you tried/deleting volume/creating a new volume/creating a new partition/formatting? from disk management?

 

[Wraith]

that sounds a bit like the MBFT or whatever it's called has crapped itself...

MTBF (Manufacture Time Before Failure)

 

[paulstung]

WARNING: THIS WILL ERASE YOUR DATA ON SSD

Have you tried/deleting volume/creating a new volume/creating a new partition/formatting? from disk management?

Yep tried that too mate, it goes through the process, but pops up that it did not complete the process.

 

[SuB]

MTBF (Manufacture Time Before Failure)

maybe i meant MBT then, master boot table? whatever the thing is that identifies and tells you what partitions there are on the drive and shiz

 

[Wraith]

Master Boot Record, Good call.

Have you tried that Paul? Run Bootrec.exe from the command prompt.

 

[RamboOC]

you should try gparted live cd, and restore the MBR. i did it with my usb flash drive

 

[Lazlo]

maybe i meant MBT then, master boot table? whatever the thing is that identifies and tells you what partitions there are on the drive and shiz

That would be the MBR = Master Boot Record for non UEFI or

GPT = GUID Partition Table for UEFI

On the problem: If you can't succesfully delete and create partitions maybe the controller didn't survive the outage without damage.

 

[SuB]

See I was close, you knew what I meant.

 

[paulstung]

Master Boot Record, Good call.

Have you tried that Paul? Run Bootrec.exe from the command prompt.

I just tried that but all I'm getting is Run Bootrec.exe is not reconized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

 

[Geralt]

Bootrec would only have to be used if this would be your boot drive. As you said its a second drive so bootrec wont help you. If you have tried deleting/ recreating volume like RamboOC suggested and it fails than your SSD is shot unfortunately.See if you can RMA it

 

[Xrqute]

Do a secure erase on the drive and it should be fine. You'll need a program like parted magic to do so. Or I know with my R4BE secure erase functionality is built into the bios.

 

[RamboOC]

Have you tried gparted live cd yet? its the best partitioning tool out there with many more features than what you have in windows, and it can restore the partition table

 

[Geralt]

Hmm secure erase may do the trick as xrqute suggested. I reckon worth a try as its not doing anything for you anyway

 

[paulstung]

No mate, doesn't it do the same thing as EaseUS ?

I'm still waiting for EaseUS Data recovery wizard to finish running, it looks like there is 8 hours to go, is it normal for a program like EaseUS, to take 12 hours to run?

 

[Geralt]

I've seen it going for so long only on mechanical HDDs when it was reading it sector by sectory. But even then generally it would time out and says that data is not recoverable. It shouldn't do it so long on SSDs as there are no sectors to run by but on the other hand I've never tried to run it on iffy SSD

 

[Xrqute]

Secure erase should only take a matter of minutes.