To avoid possibly corrupting files on the old drive, these tools will NOT write to that drive - they only will READ, and then place the recovered data on a different good drive. Virtually ALL of the good ones require that you have a spare HDD connected with enough space to hold copies of ALL of the data from the troubled drive. There are freebees on the market, and pay-for-me types. Most often the actual data all over the disk is OK, but Windows does not know how to get at it. When Windows says a HDD is RAW, what that very often means is that there is an error in a little bit of the data in its administrative files (like the Partition Table or the Root Directory) so that Windows cannot understand it. ![]() ![]() I agree, do NOT Format the drive!! With current versions of Windows, a Full Format actually overwrites EVERYTHING with zeros, destroying all old data!
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