Hard Drive repair

You're just doing more damage to your drive by putting it in the freezer. If you do need your data then I suggest you better send it to a professional data recovery service facility. The more damage you've done to the drive the more expensive it is to recover.

Can you retrieve the drive's SMART report? You could use CrystalDiskInfo or HD Sentinel.

Some USB-SATA bridges are configured with 4KB sectors. Can you show us what DMDE (freeware disc editor) sees in its Partitions window?

http://dmde.com/

The File System type "RAW" does NOT usually mean your HDD has severe physical damage. Often it means only that some of the DATA in key Windows housekeeping files at the start of the HDD is corrupted. The result is that windows does not understand the disk and gives up, then throws you this note. In those cases your actual data files on the drive are OK. You just need a way to recover that data.

This may be more complex than you can do yourself. I'm saying that because you don't appear to have a solid understanding of hard drives and their problems. But it IS something that can be handled by a home user with some patience and skill.

For starters, look on the Internet for RAW Format data recovery. There are several utility packages that claim to do this work; two that come to mind are DetDataBack for NTFS and EaseUS. Almost all of them have one important method: they will NOT just re-write data on the faulty disk. They avoid writing anything to the faulty disk, so they don't make the problem worse. Instead, they will read data on the disk, assemble them into intact complete files as best they can, and the write those recovered files to a DIFFERENT hard drive. So you MUST have a spare hard drive with at least as much empty space on it as the faulty drive. By the way, most often the problem is a simple data corruption issue in one small place, and the tool can recover just about ALL your files.

These utilities will write all they can recover to the second drive. Then it is up to you to move those to a final drive unit. In some cases you might want to have a new trouble-free unit to put them on. Some people, though, will test the "bad" drive thoroughly after the data recovery. IF they conclude the HDD was all OK, and it was all just a data corruption glitch, they may wipe the old "bad" drive clean and put all the data back on that same unit.

If you feel you can't do this yourself, you MIGHT find a computer-skilled person locally who can do the job with such utilities, for a modest price. Full professional data recovery by expert companies can be done, but that may cost a few thousand $.

The File System type "RAW" does NOT usually mean your HDD has severe physical damage. Often it means only that some of the DATA in key Windows housekeeping files at the start of the HDD is corrupted. The result is that windows does not understand the disk and gives up, then throws you this note. In those cases your actual data files on the drive are OK. You just need a way to recover that data.

This may be more complex than you can do yourself. I'm saying that because you don't appear to have a solid understanding of hard drives and their problems. But it IS something that can be handled by a home user with some patience and skill.

For starters, look on the Internet for RAW Format data recovery. There are several utility packages that claim to do this work; two that come to mind are DetDataBack for NTFS and EaseUS. Almost all of them have one important method: they will NOT just re-write data on the faulty disk. They avoid writing anything to the faulty disk, so they don't make the problem worse. Instead, they will read data on the disk, assemble them into intact complete files as best they can, and the write those recovered files to a DIFFERENT hard drive. So you MUST have a spare hard drive with at least as much empty space on it as the faulty drive. By the way, most often the problem is a simple data corruption issue in one small place, and the tool can recover just about ALL your files.

These utilities will write all they can recover to the second drive. Then it is up to you to move those to a final drive unit. In some cases you might want to have a new trouble-free unit to put them on. Some people, though, will test the "bad" drive thoroughly after the data recovery. IF they conclude the HDD was all OK, and it was all just a data corruption glitch, they may wipe the old "bad" drive clean and put all the data back on that same unit.

If you feel you can't do this yourself, you MIGHT find a computer-skilled person locally who can do the job with such utilities, for a modest price. Full professional data recovery by expert companies can be done, but that may cost a few thousand $.