Recover hard disk from Raw format
- by user1632736
I have been all over the web today with no results.
So my drive was encrypted (truecrypt) the whole drive where windows resided.
I decided to partition it to install W8 and forgot it was encrypted.
So the drive got damaged and not accessible. When connected to a computer
it asks for formatting. Somehow I enabled the drive through TrueCrypt on another computer
and I could see and get all the files.
Then I decided to decrypt the drive thinking that everything would be back to normal.
After decryption my drive is not NTFS it is in RAW format. I am trying every possible way to recover, and I am desperate enough to ask lol.
I tried:
ddrescue (linux) (not mountable, no signature, ntfsfix no good)
testdisk (linux and windows) Sees the partitions but cant do anything
Many recovery applications. etc etc.
I read in different places that doing a quickformat to NTFS and then doing a data recovery might help. I would definitely like a second opinion.
Any suggestion would be really helpful