Partitions either RAW or NTFS

[BladeKenter]

Hello! I have an ASUS ROG laptop bought 6 month ago with a 1TB hard disk. I have 4 primary partitions on it (system reserved, C: (~200gb windows 8.1 x64), D: (~700gb the actual data) and E: (~13gb not so important).
Today my laptop was moving very slow and the cursor was frozen. Did a forced restart, the laptop booted up, again the cursor froze after one minute. Again I forced the shut down using the power button and when I powered it back on, after the splash screen there was a black screen. No win8 logo, nothing. Carefully, I removed the hard drive and connected it to my computer but there are some strange details:
First of all in my computer I can only see the "system reserved" partition witch is about 300mb (accessible, i can click on it, etc). The remaining 3 partitions are in my computer too but I can't see the "space left bar" like normal. When I click on them the loading cursor appears and says "<drive letter> is not accessible".
I opened the Disk Management and I see the partitions are RAW:

(F, I and H are C, D and E on my laptop).
However in a partition recovery software I CAN see my files in the 200gb partition and 700gb partition if I quick scan it but not in the 13gb. (I can see them arranged like in windows explorer). I clicked recover and I get asked if "i want to format the partition". I DID NOT format it as I read that it's not a solution right now.
Ok, I tried another recovery software and it says that system reserved, C:\ and D:\ are NTFS and only that 13gb partition is RAW.
Finally, I got easeus data recovery and attempted to recover a photo from the list of files "sorted by type in different folders" and it's all right. The files are accessible that way.
I have important projects in that 700gb partition for my future (i just finished school) and this problem was really unexpected. What can I do now? I want to recover my files in the original tree arrangement (like the original folders name and such)
Thanks in advance. Every time I usually search and solve all the problems (majority of solutions being from this forum) but this time I don't know what to do anymore. It's 4:20am here and I'm really tired.

 

[Woohoopy]

Oh yeah this is quite an involved process (for me at least).

It happened to my USB stick that reverted to "Raw" despite having loads of data on it.

The software I used to recover 100% of my data was called "ZARx".

I was able to recover all of my 8gbs of files, but the process was super tedious, because the free demo of "ZARx" only lets you transfer 3 folders at a time. I couldn't imagine doing it for a terabyte.

I do know that if you pay, on the other hand, its a simple transfer and done.

Good luck, try to see if you have some other options first, but this one is a fail-proof plan B.

Link: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/'

Source: Tried around 5 different data recovery programs, this is the only one that even remotely worked, and actually worked really well.

 

[BladeKenter]

ZAR is stuck at "enumerating devices" since half an hour ago.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'd really appreciate more so I can try more things as I'm running out of ideas after a sleepless night. Thank you so much!

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... TestDisk has helped me... here is a good article/procedure http://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/

 

[BladeKenter]

I tried testdisk and with "quick" mode it can only see a folder with photos. I copied that on another drive but with the "long scan" it took 10hours and reached sector 300 out of something like 100 000. It would take years to complete.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... 1) What is the stated condition of your " boot sector"?
Sometimes you need to pick and choose/decide what is important and not important here and go Recover these items directly... Losing DATA and Drives etc... will/can cause personal DATA lose and those files important to you, you need a diligent system/method of other Media backups.

 

[BladeKenter]

Ok so Active Partition Recovery seems to work, but there are some problems.. with different versions. Version number 8 works good, I can see my files being there, the partition is listed as [Excellent] but when I click recover and assign a different drive letter, nothing happens.
I downloaded the newest version (15) and it's stuck in the beginning at "searching drive list" or whatever.. forever
I downloaded the 14 version, same stuff
I'm now at version 10 and when I "super scan" the partition, it's stuck at 51% when it's about to show me the files.. forever stuck, even if I cancel it it won't go. The other partition (where I had windows 8) is stuck at 21% when I want to see the files. Oh my god, I'm having like the only bugs that can happen, to me. I haven't slept for 48 hours and I really need to recover my youtube projects. I really don't know what to try anymore..
@Ironsounds how can I see the condition of that sector?

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... There is a Boot sector and "backup" Boot sector... look at bottom of page "NTFS Boot sector recovery" for information and screens... http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step Load the "backup" if the primary is Bad... This has worked as a quick fix for me, on single Partition Drives... your screens and information can vary, due to four Partitions of structure.

 

[BladeKenter]

I found that I needed to wait more in "Active File Recovery" for the software to "quick scan" all my data from that partition. I recovered a big part from it (exactly what I needed). And then I recovered some things from C:\ too. It all went good, files are ok, I will search for a software to "check" my files (photos, audio, video) to be all ok and not corrupted.
Anyway, I contacted ASUS via email about the HDD and they should reply to me in 48 hours. Till then, is it ok if I wipe all the data from the damaged disk using a bootable cd (darik's boot and nuke) ? In the terms it says "the customed may save all his confidential data before sending the product in warranty service", so it's the same, I think. I sent them this screenshot: https://s19.postimg.org/huqshc2qr/status_hardd.png
And I hope they will realise that there is a problem with it. Also I heard some (clink-clink) sounds seconds before everything froze on the screen. I never dropped the laptop or something. It's 9 months old and I really took care of it.
Thank you for all the answers looking forward to solve this in the end.