A few words of thanks would be greatly appreciated.

Hard disk- Partition became RAW

It may happen that one of your partitions become inaccessible and its file system becomes RAW.
There exist 4 ways to handle this issue::

1. Use and follow the method, indicated on this (http://forum.pcastuces.com/sujet.asp?f=1&s=100275 link] (thanks to for this tip).
2. Using the Linux Mint LiveCD to access this partition and backup your files
3. Use MiniTool Power Data Recovery
4. Try to recover your documents using this method: http://ccm.net/faq/729-recovering-lost-files

Thanks to gab1 for this tip