Recovering files from RAW exteranl usb drive when file system damaged

Question: I am seeking assistance in an issue I am having with my Seagate FreeAgent Desk external usb 1.5 TB hard drive that reports file system damaged and now is shown RAW on its file system type. I am running it under Microsoft Vista. I have been seeking a troubleshooting flowchart but unable to pinpoint the extent of damage to my hard drive.

I read some forums and believe the "file system is damaged" (Not quite sure exactly what that means as I am not a HD guru). The hard drive is warm to the touch so I believe the disc is wanting to read. Is it possible to restore the file system with your product? Please advise me what needs to be restored if I want to recover as much data as possible and if your product can help me.

Solution: Try iCare Data Recovery Software to restore files from external RAW drive with its special recovery module "Format Recovery". It is offered as free trial and it can search your lost files for free.

Please download a free trial of iCare Data Recovery Software at http://www.icare-recovery.com/icaredrs.exe and run the trial. Connect your external drive to a Windows system and then select "Format Recovery" to search lost files.

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Related Resouce with external usb drive file system RAW or damaged

"When I boot the computer with the drive connected, it does not see the drive. If I unplug the power of the drive and replug it. After, in explorer, it assigns a letter and sees the drive as a local drive but the Total Space and Free Space data in explorer has no data.

I used a Seagate Tool to inspect the drive and it shows no data for firmware. I tried a Hard Drive sector recovery tool and this shows MBR is damaged and detects many bad sectors."

RAW file system or file system reports damaged always has the following related errors and you can use iCare Data Recovery Software to get files restored.

"disk in drive d is not formatted, do you want to format it now?"
"File system not valid"
RAW file system
"Chkdsk is not available for raw drives"

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"Lost Partition Recovery": Recovering files when partition lost or deleted with following symptoms:

deleted partition by mistake
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partition or drive not detected by PC

"Advanced File Recovery": Recovering files with the following symptoms.

SHIFT+DELETE command keys
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symptom - drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now

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bad MBR, bad partition table, bad boot sector
bad file allocation table
software failure like merg partition failure, resize partition failure, ghost failure
RAID array damaged
symptom - drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now
RAW file system, raw drive

"Format Recovery": Recoveirng files related with format problems

formatted partition, card etc by mistake
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drive
Pressed restore button of iPod, iPhone, iTouch, blackberry

For any unstated data loss rescue, we recommend you to use "Deep Scan Recovery" to search lost files.

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