Hardrive in IDE changed itself to RAW

Lady_K

Are there any free programs like easeus that will allow me to recover all of the files or a large amount so I can get some from each seeing as the partition cannot be found by partition manager?

I tried recuva and it couldn't see the drive where as easeus can but I have to pay almost £60 to buy it

debitcardmayhem

Lady_K wrote: »

Are there any free programs like easeus that will allow me to recover all of the files or a large amount so I can get some from each seeing as the partition cannot be found by partition manager?

I tried recuva and it couldn't see the drive where as easeus can but I have to pay almost £60 to buy it

Have a look here at TestDisk (and photorec) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Lady_K

I had looked at that before and it looks a bit scary I'm not sure if I would be able to do it, it looks much more complicated than easeus. If it did work does it allow you to recover unlimited files?

debitcardmayhem

Lady_K wrote: »

I had looked at that before and it looks a bit scary I'm not sure if I would be able to do it, it looks much more complicated than easeus. If it did work does it allow you to recover unlimited files?

Yes it is free

Lady_K

I have got so far with the testdisk, after search for partitions there is only 1 line listed where s in the picture on the step by step example there are about 4 and it says no partition is bootable, is that bad? and the quick search is auto highlighted should I continue by pressing enter?

debitcardmayhem

Yes, assuming you have selected the correct disk

Lady_K

It says

The hardisk (33gb / 31gib) seems too small ((164gb / 153 gib)
check the hardisk size: hd jumpers settings, bios detection

and the folloeing partition cannot be recovered

the drive info is highlighted and continue is highlighted, by pressing enter will this check the hardisk size and jumpers ect or do I have to do that myself another way and if so do I do this before or after pressing to continue? and will it change things back to nfts?

debitcardmayhem

Lady_K wrote: »

It says

The hardisk (33gb / 31gib) seems too small ((164gb / 153 gib)
check the hardisk size: hd jumpers settings, bios detection

and the folloeing partition cannot be recovered

the drive info is highlighted and continue is highlighted, by pressing enter will this check the hardisk size and jumpers ect or do I have to do that myself another way and if so do I do this before or after pressing to continue? and will it change things back to nfts?

Hi again, I have to go out shortly but, first of all what is the PC you are running this from now (i seem to remember you said an old laptop) ? Do you know what size of disk and manufacturer it is (you may need to open the case again) We can always re-run testdisk again

Lady_K

I just pressed continue and it eventually went through a deeper scan which has in the end also come up with no partition is found and the only highlighted thing is QUIT

Is there anything else I can do to recover these files?

debitcardmayhem

We must have cross posted look at my last post about the PC/Disk