Lost a USB drive on vista family

Since my laptop has reboot (unwanted reboot) I have lost access to my usb
500Go drive.
The drive is seen but with a 0 byte capacity. I have tried diskmgmt.msc and
I see the file system of this drive is RAW (it should be NTFS)
How can I restore this value ?
the drive is working fine with a XP family system and as this drive is a
multimedia drive it is seen on my TV This is a vista problem
Please help

"philippe" <> wrote in message
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> Since my laptop has reboot (unwanted reboot) I have lost access to my usb
> 500Go drive.
> The drive is seen but with a 0 byte capacity. I have tried diskmgmt.msc
> and
> I see the file system of this drive is RAW (it should be NTFS)
> How can I restore this value ?
> the drive is working fine with a XP family system and as this drive is a
> multimedia drive it is seen on my TV This is a vista problem
> Please help


Sounds like MFT corruption, or similar. The drive might have been in the
middle of writing to the MFT when it lost power. This is pretty serious,
but almost all of your data is likely to be recoverable.

Try the trial for this program. I have found it to work very well in the
past, and I have tried many such recovery programs, and found this to be the
best by far. The trial will show you if it can recover anything, but it
will not actually recover anything until you buy it. If it does work, it
will be cheaper than taking the drive to a specialist file recovery service.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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> "philippe" <> wrote in message
> news:19FF0584-408D-4BE5-BBD9-...
>> Since my laptop has reboot (unwanted reboot) I have lost access to my usb
>> 500Go drive.
>> The drive is seen but with a 0 byte capacity. I have tried diskmgmt.msc
>> and
>> I see the file system of this drive is RAW (it should be NTFS)
>> How can I restore this value ?
>> the drive is working fine with a XP family system and as this drive is a
>> multimedia drive it is seen on my TV This is a vista problem
>> Please help
>
>
> Sounds like MFT corruption, or similar. The drive might have been in the
> middle of writing to the MFT when it lost power. This is pretty serious,
> but almost all of your data is likely to be recoverable.
>
> Try the trial for this program. I have found it to work very well in the
> past, and I have tried many such recovery programs, and found this to be
> the best by far. The trial will show you if it can recover anything, but
> it will not actually recover anything until you buy it. If it does work,
> it will be cheaper than taking the drive to a specialist file recovery
> service.
>
> http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
>

Oh, sorry, I read your post too quickly, and didn't realise that the drive
is usable from XP.

ss.