recover files from my external harddrive

[ImolAyrton]

I have an external harddrive that says its need to be formatted. I would like to recover the files that are on it. Anyone knows how I can fix this?

 

[ImolAyrton]

what do you mean?????? I dont understand any of it

 

[scout_03]

this external is in a case could you remove it fom there and plug it directly to system .

 

[ImolAyrton]

in diskmanagement it says it is RAW

 

[scout_03]

you could try to use recuva to read the files or easeus data recovery .

 

[ImolAyrton]

that is not possible if the software is unable to determine the file system type

 

[scout_03]

let see if someone have something else but this look like you wont be able to acces it .

 

[drthrd]

Is the drive encrypted?

 

[ImolAyrton]

I dont really understand what you mean by that , but i dont think so

 

[drthrd]

When hard drives/partitions are encrypted MS Windows will say that. What filesystem was on it? What was you doing last before it came up with that problem? Look here http://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/ https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm . Try to keep the partition cause once it is deleted and/or overwritten your chances go down at getting everything back.

 

[Hellfire13]

I have an external harddrive that says its need to be formatted. I would like to recover the files that are on it. Anyone knows how I can fix this?

ur MBR has corrupted and hence u r seeing the file system as RAW...this happens when the file system cannot access the indexing list headers and therefore unable to read in NTFS format...
now, there are 2 ways to fix this...
either try to repair the MBR which, in my experience is a very tedious and time consuming process and might/might not fix the issue...
or, recover the data and then change the RAW to NTFS before formatting the drive...

this is one of the best softwares out there... http://www.m3datarecovery.com/
but you need to get hold of the full version possible, if u know how to do it...
this is a step by step instruction... http://www.m3datarecovery.com/data-recovery/online-help...
the method you should be looking for is..."How to recover deleted or lost partition?"....
it is towards the middle of the instruction page...

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there ImolAyrton,

I would agree with Hellfire13. You will need to use some RAW drive data recovery tool.
Here's another thread on that: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/280932-32-hard-drive-recovery

Once you recover your data, it would be nice to test the drive as it could be failing. You can do so with a brand specific testing tool, that can provide a SMART report.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD