Help! HDD partition now became RAW

[rdtx2002]

Hi folks,

dunno if any of you encountered this before but one of my HDDs which worked fine yesterday suddenly became a RAW partition.

What can I do to save the files? or what could have caused this?

thanks

[goofball]

Run hard disk recovery software. You'll need to them repartition/reformat the drive.

It happens mainly because of corruption. It usually isn't a sign of impending hardware failure but you should run a hard disk diagnostic from the manufacturer regardless.

[rdtx2002]

Run hard disk recovery software. You'll need to them repartition/reformat the drive.

It happens mainly because of corruption. It usually isn't a sign of impending hardware failure but you should run a hard disk diagnostic from the manufacturer regardless.

can u recommend me good software for this?

thanks

[JIS]

I'd try this before anything:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk


Googled walkthroughs:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1139&page=8

http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/testdisk.html