My rig is made of 1 ssd ntfs (system disk) and 2 sata ntfs disks (AHCI not raid), after uninstallation of my AV, both sata became unreadable by W8 due to their conversion to raw, W8 sees them but can't read them. Both damaged DD contain important data, I can't afford to format. PLS help !
Boot off a linux live distro (ubunut, lubuntu, mint, etc) and see if your information is still there?
what do you think about trying to retrieve data with easus, format drive to ntfs, copy paste data (it's not a system drive, only movies, files etc.) ?
the funny thing is that Win8 identifies the hdd as raw, but if I run the command line to convert in ntfs, I get the answer that "hdd is already a ntfs fat" can I conclude it's only Win8 on my system hdd which does not identify correctly the other drive ? is there a way to repair this ?
Finally managed to use correctly testdisk, pretty hard because I forgot the non windows context, it rewrote my mft and boot sectors, raw hhd turned back to ntfs, no data lost merci beaucoup @ Jean Phile, thanks a lot I never heard about that utility
Be careful, it's a tool for professionals. Very powerful, but potentially dangerous. Testdisk recovers partitions, and the included PhotoRec can, despite of its name, recover all kinds of files.
I confirm, used with great caution. It must be determined the problems before modified his drive with testdisk. The big advantage is to be able to accessed the disk without the modified to assess the problem.
thank you everyone, Testdisk scared me when I started it for the first time, I probably was on a lucky day because the second time I finally understood its mechanics and I was successful in rebuilding the mft boths hdd are back and ntfs.
Never have 1 copy of a file. 2 or more for important things. This is a hard lesson to learn and it is not until your data gets fried do you realise the value of backups.