External Hard Drive is RAW

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I noticed that my external hdd had an extra 100mb partition on it, I used partition wizard to merge the two partitions so it will only have 1 partition, upon finishing the merge my 2tb external drive is now unreadable its set to a RAW format but the info is still on there, is there some way for me to make it so I can make it readable again? right now when I double click the drive it takes about 5 minutes to load then says the drive is unreadable. When I ran it through a partition recovery I can see the files are all still there and even open the files but I need to make it accessible again without the program. The files equal more than what space I have available on my hard drive or I would just transfer them like that. I have also tried un-assigning a drive letter then reassigning it but that didn't work either. I really cant delete the drive because I have video projects and photos as well as some art projects I was working on.
The drive in question is the "J" drive here is a picture of it:
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Sorry. I recommended the wrong program :( It's active@ you want. http://www.partition-recovery.com/

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I actually have tried but it seems that the tutorial I found for it is out of date or something because its not working, I get to the part that says "Press
Q
to go back a screen and then press enter to get to this screen.
Select WRITE and press enter in order to write our new partition table to the drive.
DO NOT WRITE A NEW PARTITION TABLE IF YOU DID NOT SEE YOUR FILES/FOLDERS That means the proper partition table was not found and you will have to try a different technique to recover your data."

it doesnt seem to give me a "write" option
http://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/

I am currently trying again.
 


OK, then maybe go to something like EaseUS data recovery which will do all of that automatically.
 


Don't do a superscan just yet, go for a regular one which will be quicker to complete and should hopefully recover your partition.
 

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Which version should I get? it seems to have different ones. The one I got was "Data Recovery Wizard" but when I scan it just wants to move the files from my hard drive to my computer, I dont have enough space to do that.
 


Sorry. I recommended the wrong program :( It's active@ you want. http://www.partition-recovery.com/
 
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Alright, trying now, I found a youtube video that looks like it might be the one I need to look at for that program

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTUDRKPdTPs&feature=g-upl&ab_channel=LSoftTechnologies"][/video]
 


Glad to see that it helped. I was also saved by it when I did the same. :)
 

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