NEED to Recover Data From a RAW Drive

[Dasa94]

Hey guys
So i need help recovering data from my external hard drive (here is the link of the product https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-284). The other day i was trying to plug it in my laptop and port of the laptop was malfunctioning and it was getting disconnected with the safely remove hardware option. So now its in a RAW state and i need to recover data from it. And every time i plug it in now it says it needs to be formatted first to be able to use it. It is a 1 TB hard drive and most of the free softwares can only recover upto 2 GB and that doesnt help me as I cant buy the software. I tried chkdsk but it says it doesnt work on RAW drive. I was trying to use Recuva but it doesn't detect it either. So i'm looking for solutions to recover the data as losing it is not an option.

 

[USAFRet]

Try TestDisk. It might be able to do something.

After that, you may be left with contacting a data recovery company. Which will cost $$.

And unfortunately, losing the data IS an option. Not the option you want, but it may happen.
This is why we always harp on backups.

 

[Dasa94]

Try TestDisk. It might be able to do something.

After that, you may be left with contacting a data recovery company. Which will cost $$.

And unfortunately, losing the data IS an option. Not the option you want, but it may happen.
This is why we always harp on backups.

This was actually a backup hard drive.
I did download TestDisk yesterday but i didn't know how to use it. Can you tell me what should i do ?

 

[USAFRet]

This was actually a backup hard drive.
I did download TestDisk yesterday but i didn't know how to use it. Can you tell me what should i do ?

The TestDisk documentation can explain it far better than I can.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step


And if this was the only copy of that data...that is not a "backup".
A backup is a second or third copy.

If the data still exists elsewhere, buy a new external and move on.

 

[Dasa94]

This was actually a backup hard drive.
I did download TestDisk yesterday but i didn't know how to use it. Can you tell me what should i do ?

The TestDisk documentation can explain it far better than I can.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step


And if this was the only copy of that data...that is not a "backup".
A backup is a second or third copy.

If the data still exists elsewhere, buy a new external and move on.

It is a backup device of several other laptops and pc's i used to have which stopped working etc. I kept all the backups on this drive and was trying to look for a document when this happened. 🙁

 

[Dasa94]

This was actually a backup hard drive.
I did download TestDisk yesterday but i didn't know how to use it. Can you tell me what should i do ?

The TestDisk documentation can explain it far better than I can.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step


And if this was the only copy of that data...that is not a "backup".
A backup is a second or third copy.

If the data still exists elsewhere, buy a new external and move on.

I started TestDisk and the estimated time is 100 hours... isnt there a way to select the data i want to recover and just recover that ?

 

[USAFRet]

This was actually a backup hard drive.
I did download TestDisk yesterday but i didn't know how to use it. Can you tell me what should i do ?

The TestDisk documentation can explain it far better than I can.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step


And if this was the only copy of that data...that is not a "backup".
A backup is a second or third copy.

If the data still exists elsewhere, buy a new external and move on.

I started TestDisk and the estimated time is 100 hours... isnt there a way to select the data i want to recover and just recover that ?

The more you mess with it, the less likely you are to actually get anything.
I'd just let it run, as painful as that may be.