My external HD turned to RAW - How to recover my data?

Posted by Matan Eldan on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Matan Eldan
Published on 2011-10-10T13:10:58Z Indexed on 2012/12/19 11:05 UTC
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I have an external HD (WD MyBook Essentials) with all of my backups (1TB) for some unknown reason, when I try to connect the drive (Tried several interfaces: eSATA/plugged it into my PC/USB) I get this message: "You need to format the disk in drive M: before you can use it"

I've looked in disk management at the drive, and its listed in there - with the same full capacity. The file system under disk management now says RAW and that its healthy

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