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[SOLVED] Old IDE HDD shows as "RAW" and wants to format partition

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Hello techies,

I just bought an USB to IDE/SATA connector for fun and decided to rift through a couple of my old drives. The one I'm looking at now (MAXTOR DiamondMax plus 9 ATA/133 drive), however, doesn't allow me to access one of it's partitions. (I'm on Windows 7 btw)

It has two partitions, one with the system and the other where I must have kept anything else. The system partition opens fine, but the H: demands that I format the drive. In DiskManagement it comes up as RAW filetype.

I'm not tech savvy or anything, but I think the problem has to do with the drive being set to MBR (Master boot)?

Is there anything I can do to make Windows 7 recognize the file system without formatting the drive? I don't believe that the drive is malfunctioning.

Kind regards,
Sebastian
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Re: Old IDE HDD shows as "RAW" and wants to format partition

Download Partition Find and Mount install it and scan the drive and see if you can mount the partition to copy the files off to another hard drive.
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Did the external drive not show up in the first screen ? It may not detect USB connected devices I would have to "test" that to see myself as I always use it on drives connected direct to a SATA or IDE port on the motherboard is that an option ?
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download r-studio in my sig and scan the trial versio the drive with that to see if it finds the missing data
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let the scan run for about 30min and check the results. You have to 'buy' the software to be able to recover the data off. The program does let you open some files to "check" them to make sure they are good and work etc before you purchase. Yes all good signs so far
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