Hard Drive gone to "Raw" format

[RobCharles1981]

Hi Everyone,

Need a pointer if there's any software that can help me fix this problem.
The Hard Drive is a 2TB Sea Baracoda and I use this for copying data and I connect this via a docking station I just used this drive the other day and a day or so ago the drive had gone into spasim mode and had gone RAW so there's no file system associated with the drive.

I connected the drive directly to the motherboard and also in my External Enclosure all say Raw and it happily spins away but I can't access the contents of this drive.

In event viewer it says:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk7\DR8 during a paging operation.

so any help would be great!
Cheers
Rob

 

[KingNosser]

I had to salvage data from a drive once different reasons thou but it's an old app called getdataback but if it doesn't have a file system i'm not sure thou if windows see's it as a device then that type of recovery software could work as basically any data that's ever been written can be pulled off the drive and i do mean ever written but it's an extremely long process and the larger the drive the longer it would take no idea if there is a newer version of said software but ive an old licensed copy on dvd but this is going back 20 years last i used it but if you're just wanting the drive to work I'm less sure how to solve that maybe some kind of firmware flash and then format to gain a working drive again

 

[RobCharles1981]

I think the drive of mine is stuffed the drive spins up and windows "detects it" but doesn't show up- I've lost nothing in any case.

 

[RobCharles1981]

Seems that I may have lost a folder or two - will try a live CD environment to see if I can see the drive or ile have to send the drive to be recovered.