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How to repair volume/disk corruption on a VM?

I am running VMs on Hyper V 2008. Yesterday I noticed that one of my VMs has a volume/disk that may be corrupt. I tried to run a chkdsk on the C: drive and it came back clean. When I attempt to run a chkdsk on the D: drive it comes back with the following error: "The type of the file system is RAW. Chkdsk is not available for RAW drives." When I read this I take it as my OS thinking that the drive has yet to be formatted. At one point it was and it currently has data on it however the data doesn't appear to be stable anymore because of the underlying disk/drive issues.

With this being a VM and not an actual physical disk. I'm trying to find ways to restore the volume without losing the data, if such a way exists.

Thanks.

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Subhashish Laha

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Haresh Nikumbh

you need to use third party tool to recover data, if you do not have backups

check it out below recovery tool if they shows data

Recuva

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Pandora Recovery

http://www.pandorarecovery.com/

both are free tools if can spend money then go for

Zero Assumption recovery tool

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm

dowhatyoudo22

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I have full backups from this past weekend that I should be able to pull from. But if the disk is corrupt isn't it possible that those specific backups are potentially corrupted as well? Should I be looking for a backup of my data when the disk was last known to be in a good state?

subhashishlaha > your comment suggests that I may be experiencing issues with the actual storage in which the VHD resides. Is that correct?

Thanks.

Subhashish Laha

Yes, check your underlying storage as well.

Scott C

Look at your backup logs. They should say if any of the backed up data was corrupted. If they were successful you should be good.