How to restore data from a RAW partition?

abhinavjoshua

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Hi,
It's been over 5 days that I am trying to restore my 1TB WD internal hard drive's data but very try is unsuccessful. I've tried a lot of partition and data recovery softwares but they seem to fail. I haven't formatted the hard drive so the data is still intact and I could see it through partition recovery softwares but it's unable to recover.
Recently I was using Active partition to recover the data files. But my hard drive disconnects and connects itself so the whole process gets cancelled.
I have connected the hard drive through an USB to Sata converter to my laptop. This doesn't seem to work. Please help me! I am stuck...
I have 700GB of precious data!
 
Hi
If really important data goto a profesional data recovery company
This is expensive but safest way

Next best. Clone the disk to a New hdd
Do data recovery on cloned hdd

Test disk by cgsecurity.org. May be able to rebuild partition table
If it fails its companion program photo recovery may succeed

You need a hard disk with about 800gb free to recover files off bad disk
Do not try to recover files to problem or cloned hdd

If recovery or cloning fails due to bad sectors look at. Ddrescue to clone hdd
It can bypass bad sectors without crashing.


Regards
Mike Barnes
 
Hey there, abhinavjoshua!

I'm truly sorry to hear about the data on your WD drive. The RAW partition indicates a file system corruption. @Mike had some pretty good third-party recovery tool suggestions, so I believe you could give them a try as well. However, before attempting any kind of data recovery, I'd strongly recommend you to test the drive using WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. This tool will help us determine the health and S.M.A.R.T. status of your WD drive, just make sure you run both the QUICK and the EXTENDED test. Here you can find all the available WD software for Windows, it should be second in that list: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=6co1PV

Keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD