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External USB drive not properly ejected - now RAW fformat
I'm doing fabbo with Win10 /s
Because of some annoyances - hopefully fixed in the RTM Version - my USB drives cannot be ejected safely from their controller in Win10. So I eject them with the hardware release mechanism from the external enclosure. Windows usually doesnt like that but apart from resetting (I think) that USB connection, nothing happens.
That is until today. After putting a 2TB disk back in the enclosure, Win10 insisted it needed to format the disk. Chkdsk insists that the NTFS boot sector is damaged and the backup one is no use either. The FS shows as RAW.
With tools like EaseUS Data Recovery I can actually see all files, the complete folder structure and the file properties (such as sizes) but when I extract them, they're corrupted. They look fine but they're unplayable (all Video files).
I read somewhere that those tools basically just find the beginning of the file in the allocation table and then use the size to extract the file in a continuous block. If the disk was fragmented however, that approach results in useless files.
I'm running a deep scan with Testdisk to find all partitions and get the RAW files, but it takes forever.
What I wanted to know is, can it really be, that something minuscule like detaching a drive unsafely (while there is no apparent drive activity and all my tasks have finished) gets Windows to f#°@ up the boot sectors and MFT so badly that the drive is basically useless? Isnt there a quick fix, like restoring the boot sector and MFT (chkdsk wont do it)?
Cant believe we havent come further in data and drive protection.