Make my external hard drive accessible without formatting it
Anto31
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Hello everyone,
Following the connection of an external hard drive to a TV, my hard drive no longer worked on my PC. It was detected by the file explorer, but I received the message asking for formatting. Since I had important data on it, I looked for another solution. I did a data recovery (the most important ones as I have almost 2TB of data and only my PC for storage). I followed tutorials to try to modify the partition of my hard drive with TestDisk. What struck me as strange is that the detected partitions of the disk were under Linux with [pvr_device]. I followed the tutorial and tried to restore a partition. Since then, my hard drive is no longer visible in the file explorer; however, it is detected by my PC because I can recover my files via PhotoRec. My disk manager displays the volume of the hard drive in numerical format (disk 1 partition...), TestDisk still sees my hard drive, and I'm offered the option to unplug my devices.
To summarize, I think my hard drive took a TV format (pvrdevice) and is therefore unreadable.
My question is, in my case, is it possible to change this format to regain access to my hard drive?
I'm sorry if this isn't super clear; I don't know much about computers. Thank you for your responses.
Following the connection of an external hard drive to a TV, my hard drive no longer worked on my PC. It was detected by the file explorer, but I received the message asking for formatting. Since I had important data on it, I looked for another solution. I did a data recovery (the most important ones as I have almost 2TB of data and only my PC for storage). I followed tutorials to try to modify the partition of my hard drive with TestDisk. What struck me as strange is that the detected partitions of the disk were under Linux with [pvr_device]. I followed the tutorial and tried to restore a partition. Since then, my hard drive is no longer visible in the file explorer; however, it is detected by my PC because I can recover my files via PhotoRec. My disk manager displays the volume of the hard drive in numerical format (disk 1 partition...), TestDisk still sees my hard drive, and I'm offered the option to unplug my devices.
To summarize, I think my hard drive took a TV format (pvrdevice) and is therefore unreadable.
My question is, in my case, is it possible to change this format to regain access to my hard drive?
I'm sorry if this isn't super clear; I don't know much about computers. Thank you for your responses.
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Hello
and one more...
you can move your external hard drive from Windows PC to Windows PC but not from Android TV, Linux, WEBos, Tizen, etc. to Windows, without risks
no, formatting is done on an empty drive
you need a 2 TB empty drive to recover your data and eeeeeeexxxxtraordinarily a lot of patience
I think I used Recuva or GetDataBackx64 for a raw recovery
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and one more...
you can move your external hard drive from Windows PC to Windows PC but not from Android TV, Linux, WEBos, Tizen, etc. to Windows, without risks
no, formatting is done on an empty drive
you need a 2 TB empty drive to recover your data and eeeeeeexxxxtraordinarily a lot of patience
I think I used Recuva or GetDataBackx64 for a raw recovery
Take the time to comment!
A thank you is appreciated.
Mark it as resolved if your problem has found a solution. I address everyone informally.
Anto31
I haven't lost any data; it's still on the hard drive. Since the TV changed its format, is it possible to reverse the process?