Rebuilt computer with new motherboard, everything else the same. Put in an SATA drive that was used as a back up but files will not open. All files have correct names, but when opened, system says can't read, data in a "raw" format. How do I open these to recover the data? Backups were just copy to location (not a backup program). Some files were directly put on there.
External hard drive files will not open in Windows 10, days they are in a raw format
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Hey Duuude, welcome to the community! 
Usually that sort of thing shouldn't happen to a secondary storage drive. Would you please be so kind as to post a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management about the HDD and its partitions (you can use imgur.com to upload the image)?
I'd recommend that you make sure that the cables are seated properly to the motherboard, PSU and the drive. You could also try it with a different SATA port and cables, or a different computer, to see if the HDD is properly recognized and if you can get to your data. You could also try to access it via Ubuntu Live USB/DVD, to see if the drive is properly recognized by this OS and if you can recover your files. Data recovery software is also an option if the...
Usually that sort of thing shouldn't happen to a secondary storage drive. Would you please be so kind as to post a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management about the HDD and its partitions (you can use imgur.com to upload the image)?
I'd recommend that you make sure that the cables are seated properly to the motherboard, PSU and the drive. You could also try it with a different SATA port and cables, or a different computer, to see if the HDD is properly recognized and if you can get to your data. You could also try to access it via Ubuntu Live USB/DVD, to see if the drive is properly recognized by this OS and if you can recover your files. Data recovery software is also an option if the...
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Hey Duuude, welcome to the community!
Usually that sort of thing shouldn't happen to a secondary storage drive. Would you please be so kind as to post a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management about the HDD and its partitions (you can use imgur.com to upload the image)?
I'd recommend that you make sure that the cables are seated properly to the motherboard, PSU and the drive. You could also try it with a different SATA port and cables, or a different computer, to see if the HDD is properly recognized and if you can get to your data. You could also try to access it via Ubuntu Live USB/DVD, to see if the drive is properly recognized by this OS and if you can recover your files. Data recovery software is also an option if the other suggestions don't prove useful: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html and http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
Usually that sort of thing shouldn't happen to a secondary storage drive. Would you please be so kind as to post a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management about the HDD and its partitions (you can use imgur.com to upload the image)?
I'd recommend that you make sure that the cables are seated properly to the motherboard, PSU and the drive. You could also try it with a different SATA port and cables, or a different computer, to see if the HDD is properly recognized and if you can get to your data. You could also try to access it via Ubuntu Live USB/DVD, to see if the drive is properly recognized by this OS and if you can recover your files. Data recovery software is also an option if the other suggestions don't prove useful: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html and http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm.
Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
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