I wonder if any of the I.T. Guru's here might be able to help me, it's rather an edge-case though, so my expectations are not high. A few years ago I was creating a home-movie for a friend. At the time I was running Windows 8.1 and I had formatted my external drive to use ReFS (Because at the time, there was a lot of hype about it being the 'future' FS and I wanted the files to be safe... 'resiliant') Unfortunately my friend passed away last year. I dug out my old drive and attempted to mount it via USB on Windows 10. The drive showed up as RAW / corrupted, windows was asking me to format it, I clicked cancel.
I then did a lot of research and found that in the various revisions of ReFS over there years, things changed. Firstly ReFS was made to not work on external disks anymore (for whatever reason) This was rolled out in a Windows 10 patch at some point. Secondly ReFS seems to have gone fully depreciated and various Windows 10 patches have been playing havoc with the format over the years, from all the forum issues I read.
I found this tool called ReFSUtil: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/refsutil
I followed the instructions to try and recover my files, I ran the 'full-auto' option which was supposed to do a full scan of the drive and then produce a file-list.txt for the copy option to use, when transferring. Unfortunately, while the scan did succeed, it did not write a file list for me. When running the file copy operation, it does nothing due to the lack of a generated file list.
The only thing I can think of doing now installing Windows 8.1 on an old laptop, and trying to access the drive that way. Does this sound like the best course of action to others? Thank you
I then did a lot of research and found that in the various revisions of ReFS over there years, things changed. Firstly ReFS was made to not work on external disks anymore (for whatever reason) This was rolled out in a Windows 10 patch at some point. Secondly ReFS seems to have gone fully depreciated and various Windows 10 patches have been playing havoc with the format over the years, from all the forum issues I read.
I found this tool called ReFSUtil: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/refsutil
I followed the instructions to try and recover my files, I ran the 'full-auto' option which was supposed to do a full scan of the drive and then produce a file-list.txt for the copy option to use, when transferring. Unfortunately, while the scan did succeed, it did not write a file list for me. When running the file copy operation, it does nothing due to the lack of a generated file list.
The only thing I can think of doing now installing Windows 8.1 on an old laptop, and trying to access the drive that way. Does this sound like the best course of action to others? Thank you
