- Feb 12, 2014
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I have a secondary hard drive on my desktop that has irreplaceable, necessary data. The drive was originally a 3TB WD My Book external drive that I tried to install internally. Then, I initialized the disk in "Disk Management" but it now says that I have to format the disk. I really can not lose the information on this disk. I tried opening command and using "chkdsk /f D:" --> (don't know why I used that command, saw it in another post and tried it) with the response "the type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK in not available for RAW drives."
I had some hints from some friends to try seeing the files with a Linux system. I booted Linux Mint with a USB drive, but when I clicked on the "RAW" drive that has the information I need, it says that the drive cannot be mounted. I went into the terminal and tried to mount it with no real direction on how to do that, and no real success either.
I'd hate to spend the $80 on a recovery program, when I could solve the problem for free, even if it might take some more work. I just don't really know how to do that.
I had some hints from some friends to try seeing the files with a Linux system. I booted Linux Mint with a USB drive, but when I clicked on the "RAW" drive that has the information I need, it says that the drive cannot be mounted. I went into the terminal and tried to mount it with no real direction on how to do that, and no real success either.
I'd hate to spend the $80 on a recovery program, when I could solve the problem for free, even if it might take some more work. I just don't really know how to do that.
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