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Hi Fiona. Thanks for all your help.
The disk is a 160Gb and yes, the 3rd partition is RAW, which happens to house the files I am looking to save.
As far as my attempt to format was merely to see if formatting was even possible and as I suspected, it was not.
I don't have access to another sata ...

I failed to explain that the disk in question is external to my laptop by way of a USB enclosure. All cables and connections have been thoroughly checked and tested by way of using another disk drive I have. Since the disk in question is connected by USB, it doesn't appear in Bios. Could this be the ...

I downloaded and ran both standard and ultimate versions of CrystalDiskInfo 6.5.2.
Both had same results. Auto Refresh set at 1 min. I set Advanced features to include;
Advanced Disk Search
ATA_PASS_Through
All USB/IEEE 1394 selected
Enabled ALL DISKS in Intel RAID (CSMI)
The only disk either ...

I apologize. No, it did not list the disk. The image in the earlier post only had to do with drive G:.
After running Rebuild BS this was the result. I tried List and it reported "Can't open file system. File system seems damaged."
Any ideas?

Hi Fiona,
Here's the results

Hi
I've got a WD Scorpio Blue 150 gb disk that turned RAW from NTFS on one of its drives. In using Test Disk, it doesn't list the disk but does list the 2 drives (F & G). Disk Management can see it but I have no Security Tab in Properties for the RAW drive G:
Analyse shows nothing but Read Error ...