My hard drive is not being detected.

Abhishek_48

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I have a hard disk that is not being detected when I connect it internally in my laptop but when I connected with a USB module it didn't show any partition rather the disk shows RAW partition. I have a lot of data in it.

Please provide me with some solutions so that I can access the data in the drive coz the data is very important to me.

Please help me. Please.
 
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The reason why the drive says it is raw when connected via a bridge board from a sata interface to a usb one.
Is because the hard drive was originally formatted and information written to it from a sata interface device.

When you add a bridge board from a sata interface on a drive that converts the data connection to a usb it is why the drive shows up or reads as a Raw formatted device, even if you know the drive has been formatted and contains files.

If the drive does have a sata interface on it where it docks with the laptop internally when slid into the laptop.

Then connect the drive to a normal tower based system, that has a motherboard with sata ports on it.

Use a sata cable and connect power to the drive.

If the drive still...

undefined512

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What were the partition(s) on the drive originally formatted as? (NTFS, FAT32, etc.)

Try accessing the drive from a linux system, if you have one. You could install your drive in your laptop, then boot a linux OS from a flash drive. UNetbootin is a tool that will make it easy for you to create a bootable USB drive. If you can mount and read the drive while in Linux, then you can copy the data over.


*If the data is extremely important to you, and you have no backup available, you might want to consider taking it to a professional data recovery service.

 
The reason why the drive says it is raw when connected via a bridge board from a sata interface to a usb one.
Is because the hard drive was originally formatted and information written to it from a sata interface device.

When you add a bridge board from a sata interface on a drive that converts the data connection to a usb it is why the drive shows up or reads as a Raw formatted device, even if you know the drive has been formatted and contains files.

If the drive does have a sata interface on it where it docks with the laptop internally when slid into the laptop.

Then connect the drive to a normal tower based system, that has a motherboard with sata ports on it.

Use a sata cable and connect power to the drive.

If the drive still does not show when connected to a tower based system via a Sata data connection it means the drive is either broken physically or the file structure of the drive has become corrupted Abhishek_48.
 
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