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- - Latest reply:  SA - Oct 1, 2010 at 02:41 PM
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Hello,


i have a lot of data in my external hard drive (transcend 320 GB). for some reason i am not able to view the data. when i click on the drive it gives an error " the disk is not formatted. do you want to format now". what do i do so as to recover my data. also the file type is now showing as RAW.

can you pls advise

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Hello,

Try this 1.

If the "File System" is RAW, then may be partition got damaged or corrupted.

Click on the below link and download the file.

http://download.cnet.com/...

Select the option "Damaged Partition Recovery". It will recover the data from the

damaged partition.

Good Luck.

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it worked. thanks for your help!
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Hi,

please have a look on the following thread, there you'll find some advices that may be helpful.

http://ccm.net/forum/affich-31442-can-t-access-data-on-my-usb-mass-storage

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