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File format change?

  1. #1


    Linus 17 Guest

    File format change?

    I have an external 40GB hard drive and a 128MB SecureDrive. Recently,
    something happened that changed their file formats to RAW, and now I cannot
    access either of them! When I go to the "properties" window, they both show
    that their file systems are of the RAW format, and that both drives are full.
    I didn't want to reformat them because of some of the data on them, but I
    decided to try anyway, and Windows said that the drives could not be
    formatted because of an "invalid/unknown file type". The data wasn't erased,
    and Windows recognizes that they are plugged in, but I cannot access them.
    What can I do to restore or recover them??? :-(



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  2. #2


    Joep Guest

    Re: File format change?

    Hi,

    You are welcome to create a DiskPatch logfile and post it in our online
    forum. Often (not always) we can recover data and fix problems like these
    (RAW disks) 'in-place'


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    >I have an external 40GB hard drive and a 128MB SecureDrive. Recently,
    > something happened that changed their file formats to RAW, and now I
    > cannot
    > access either of them! When I go to the "properties" window, they both
    > show
    > that their file systems are of the RAW format, and that both drives are
    > full.
    > I didn't want to reformat them because of some of the data on them, but I
    > decided to try anyway, and Windows said that the drives could not be
    > formatted because of an "invalid/unknown file type". The data wasn't
    > erased,
    > and Windows recognizes that they are plugged in, but I cannot access them.
    > What can I do to restore or recover them??? :-(




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  3. #3


    Jason Gurtz Guest

    Re: File format change?

    Linus 17 wrote:
    > I have an external 40GB hard drive and a 128MB SecureDrive. Recently,
    > something happened that changed their file formats to RAW, and now I cannot
    > access either of them!

    [...]
    > What can I do to restore or recover them??? :-(


    Before you pay, check out R-Studio...

    ~Jason

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  4. #4



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    Re: File format change?

    Use the fixer I just have made:
    RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

    Open the exe file and click on "split".
    Click on the input and click to the file you want to fix like an exe file you have mistaken and change format on and can't change back to exe.
    Then you click on the output and choose where the fixed file should come.
    Its a very good program for vista.
    Thank for watching my reply.

    And it's not virus my nod32 did'nt say anything.

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