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  1. seavixen32
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    It sounds as though the drive may have been corrupted or converted to RAW format.

    Are you able to connect the drive to a different computer then use Recuva to get your data back?
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  3. Gator
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    Connect it via USB and see if it becomes visible again. If it shows up, then try recuva.
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  4. mjf
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    Yes but I would have expected that Windows would provide the user the prompt to initialize the disk when detecting a RAW drive???
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  6. seavixen32
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    mjf said:
    Yes but I would have expected that Windows would provide the user the prompt to initialize the disk when detecting a RAW drive???
    You're quite right, so it comes down to data corruption then.

    You really need to get the drive hooked up to another computer and try Recuva.

    Failing that, you could try a proprietary data recovery service, but that can be expensive.
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