Drive not accessible, shows as "unformatted". Guidance?

[dsutton]

I have a Western Digital 750gb drive that was working fine until one day it was inaccessible. The computer (windows 7) now tells me that the drive is inaccessible and must be formatted. I don't know what happened, but i have a feeling my data is still intact somewhere on this drive. The windows disk manager shows the partition as "RAW".

I have run testdisk and when I select "Analyse", here's what I see:



Next, I select "Quick Search", and I see this:



I press Enter to continue:


There are limited options with the Extended partition, so I press the down arrow to move to the Logical partition, then select "List". I see this:


Finally, I try the "Boot" option to see what happens:


I didn't take any further action.

Can anyone advise me on what i should do to try to access my data? Thanks.

[Fiona]

Did you run Deeper Search in TestDisk?
If your partition was created using windows 7, your partition will be aligned on megabyte boundary.
Those partitions starting after 1 MB.
If an earlier partition was created using intel standard, a remnant can be found and displayed first.

Otherwise, it would look like, that your file system is damaged.
In case, you can try PhotoRec.

[dsutton]

Yes, I tried Deeper Scrub. It didn't work.

I just tried PhotoRec, and it is able to recover all my files, albeit without original filenames.

That's better than not getting the files back

Thank you Fiona

[cgrenier]

Try TestDisk, Advanced, select the NTFS partition, Boot, RepairMFT. Maybe you will have access to your files this way.