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I have a WD WD10EARX hard drive.
it is showing boot partition is damaged and not even showing any files in RAW recovery.

I have tried searching NTFS partition, scanning disk but no results.

what steps to follow....

RescueDRL@gmail.com wrote:Source of the post I have a WD WD10EARX hard drive.
it is showing boot partition is damaged and not even showing any files in RAW recovery.

I have tried searching NTFS partition, scanning disk but no results.

what steps to follow....

Well,
Even if you do not wana learn comprehensive File System Details like FAT/NTFS Still i am assuming as you are into Data Recovery a Few Basics Should Be Clear .What Has Boot Partition To Do With RAW Recovery ,If You Are Not Able To Do a RAW Signature Scan Even Then i Am Assuming That Your HDD is Encrypted or just has no info ,Please check some sectors and see if it actually has data its not uncommon to find completely erased and zerofiled hdds passed to you from other data recovery labs

Can you see MBR or Boot record info? You are sure is not with some encryption? If you work inside DE make sure you set correct sector size as some HDD will use 4096 bytes sectors.

Strange that there is no files in RAW, was drive removed from some enclosure?

AJ2008 wrote:Source of the post Can you see MBR or Boot record info? You are sure is not with some encryption? If you work inside DE make sure you set correct sector size as some HDD will use 4096 bytes sectors.

Strange that there is no files in RAW, was drive removed from some enclosure?

Well,
AJ Have You Ever Changed Sector Size In A Case .I Have Never Done This Till Yet

Yes. Usually check MBR / superblock/ boot record etc for partition size, compare to total LBA reported by HDD and calculate from here what sector size is in use.