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I've been using my 60GB HDD for 3years. Suddenly it appears my HDD partition becomes RAW. Why ?
Any solution to recover back all my data?
could be any number of things? File corruption, disk faults.
Best thing to do is reformat and restore from a backup (you DO do backups!!!).
by saraline
A corrupt or missing boot sector will cause such kind of problem.
To fix the boot sector, you may refer to
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-table-doctor/help/fixboot.htm
If it still cannot be solved, you have to recover all the data out and then format the partition as the system indicates so that you can enter the partition again.
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-raw-drive.htm
could be any number of things? File corruption, disk faults.
Best thing to do is reformat and restore from a backup (you DO do backups!!!).
by hal 9000
Go the the Drives Makers site and download the Testing Utility that they have and test the drive. If it fails the test it doesn't necessarily mean the drive is faulty but it does mean that the Power Supply/Controller/IDE Lead or Drive is bad.
If it comes up as good you then know everything is A OK but if it comes up as Bad I would remove the drive from that machine and fir it to a Known Good M'Board IDE Lead and test again.
If it comes up as good this time change the IDE Lead and try again in the old machine. If it then comes up as good you can put it down to the IDE Lead being the problem. If it still comes up as BAD check both the 5 V DC and 12 V DC lines for the correct voltages a low 5 Volt line will destroy the File System very fast and they are hard to fault find unless you know what to look for.
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by techrepublic
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