External USB Drive Lost it's Format after unchecking "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties"

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EnglishmanInJapan

Hello,From the Volume properties window within the "Disk Management" tool under Windows 10, I unchecked the "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties" checkbox. However since then I have been unable to access the drive, Windows Explorer tells me that the drive is not formatted!!I downloaded the CGSecurity "TestDisk" fantastic tool, and it detects the MS Partition, and can view all the files within it. However, writing the partition data back to disk, does not resolve the issue of being unable to access the seemingly "Unformatted" drive... even thou

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