Partition on Hard Drive changed to RAW, how can I fix it?

Nekrono

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Guys I really need some help, I just had a power outage and my computer shut down, after the power came back I turned it on and now it takes a really long time to get started and even when I'm in Windows it still doesn't load everything properly and is slow.

Upon troubleshooting it seems like one the partitions is corrupt, I have an SSD with two partitions one for Windows and one for games, then I have a 1TB drive with three partitions, from this drive it's partition E: (biggest one for games) that is corrupt and causing my whole system to hang.

On Disk Management this is what it looks like:
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I've tried changing the partition's letter/path but no matter what I do it always shows as RAW and the computer is unable to read the data.

Is there anything I can do to fix the partition and change it back to NTFS without losing the data? I know the data is there, I saw it with testdisk and it seems you can use that program to fix this but it's really confusing and I'm afraid of losing everything.
 
Hey there, Nekrono!

@Mattios is right, your partition has become RAW due to some corruption. You can try using the third-party recovery software mentioned above, but I'd strongly recommend you to perform a backup of the data to which you have access at the moment and copy it somewhere else.
Then I'd suggest you to test the HDD's health and SMART status by running the manufacturer's diagnostic utility. You should be able to find it on their website, but in case you can't here's a thread from the community that might be helpful: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Keep us posted with the results though! :)
SuperSoph_WD