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Sometimes chkdsk switches may work on a RAW drive.
More often I've seen it fail.
If chkdsk works then ok.
If chkdsk fails then what?
The size of the recovery partition is approximately 7GB.
The computer has Mini Tool Partition Wizard Professional 11.5 with data and partition recovery.
What is the next step?
OK, it still does n't show a File system for that drive. I may not want to do any experiment on it since we don't know whether it is FAT32 or NTFS.
You may if you want go ahead with checkdisk but before that remove the drive letter again using Partition Wizard to restore it to the previous state.( Drive letter - None)
Doesn't it need a drive letter for chkdsk syntax?
Chkdsk /f /r /v /x T: or chkdsk /b /v T: ?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ommands/chkdsk
/b NTFS only: Clears the list of bad clusters on the volume and rescans all allocated and free clusters for errors. /b includes the functionality of /r. Use this parameter after imaging a volume to a new hard disk drive.
Without a drive letter it may default to C: ?
If its FAT32 then can't use chkdsk? only ntfs?
Mini Tool displayed NTFS:
I've used a bootable Windows 10 iso and booted to Windows RE.
In WinRE the recovery partition is G:
I'll attempt chkdsk now.
It's running now.
It just completed.
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
Rebooting now.
Plan to run diskpart and reagentc /info.
There was no change after running chkdsk.
The recovery drive partition is still RAW:
Code:Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Try the new cross-platform PowerShell https://aka.ms/pscore6 PS C:\windows\system32> reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Disabled Windows RE location: Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 238da88d-49fb-11e9-92c9-c3d8e506f5ea Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful. PS C:\windows\system32> reagentc /enable REAGENTC.EXE: The Windows RE image was not found. PS C:\windows\system32> diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: DESKTOP-K2CP43S DISKPART> lis dis Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 698 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 58 GB 26 GB DISKPART> sel dis 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> lis par Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 499 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Primary 689 GB 500 MB Partition 3 Primary 2056 MB 689 GB Partition 4 Recovery 7148 MB 691 GB DISKPART> sel par 4 Partition 4 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> det par Partition 4 Type : 27 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 742657097728 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 5 RAW Partition 7148 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> sel vol 5 The volume you selected is not valid or does not exist. There is no volume selected. DISKPART>
What are the steps via command line?
This computer has Mini Tool Partition Wizard Pro 11.5.
It has data recovery and partition recovery in the menu options.
Chkdsk was ran on all partitions while in windows RE.
Windows found no problems.
There was cleaning only.
It was ran a second time on the recovery partition.
The recovery partition was still RAW after all chkdsk runs finding no problems.
I think it is an extended partition...
You can use Minitool to delete partition & create a New Primary NTFS Partition...
We can work backwards from there...
Is this a system that you can do a "Clean Install" ??
The computer has all original parts.
There is a 750 GB HD that works with a 30 GB flash cache.
This is a "modified RAID 0" for faster HD boot times.
Clean install with Macrium is not yet an option.
At sometime the plan was/is to replace the HD and flash cache with an SSD.
Approximately 6 months ago the users folders were backed up to an external HD.
It would have to be copy and paste with old data to restore.
For the in place upgrade repair to recreate the recovery partition would that only occur during an upgrade? Or would it work version to version without an upgrade?
For Mini Tool would it be a right click delete on the recovery partition followed by left click apply, then click yes then ok?
Then right click partition recovery?
The format without format quick was not attempted yet.
Macrium backup I've not yet done with this computer.
I've not used the software in a long time.
There is a backup image on the external HD from another computer.
If this does not risk mixing the images it can be attempted.
If this is a RAID setup - would that raid be a mirrored setup ??
I would rather not advise on a RAID setup regarding partitions - as I do not use RAID or know how it would effect the second disk in the disk array