Intenso hard drive switched to raw. Formatted.

Niko88

New member
Hi all.

I've a problem with the intenso external HDD (4 TB) of my friend. I assume, his daughter puts it in a computer and taked it out in short time. The file system is switched to RAW firstly.

I've already some experience with data recovery with Recuva. So I've formatted the file system to NTFS again and started Recuva software (as done already somethimes).

After formatting, recuva won't run scanning because of "wrong parameter". I've found out, the RAW format is not supported by this software.

I've used several software with RAW support. They find only a part of the files on the disk. Also i found a manual, how to handle RAW disks. One of the points was "don't format".

My question is: are the not found files not recoverable after my format actions? Or is there a possibility to recovery the data? (e.g. delete the partition and start search again)

Thank you.
 

jimmy5

Member
probably shouldnt have formatted it, but wonder if intenso external harddrives are better than the seagate crap or not?
 

pclab

Moderator
It's weird: first people do the mistakes and after ask for help.
You never format a drive!! Why the hell you did that??

Your best approach is to use the demo of some good recovery software like UFS Explorer and see what you get with that.
 
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