Hi I have an sp2514n hard drive. It was in a external hard drive case and was accessible via usb2. However the power to the case ceased so I removed the hard drive and installed it in a PC. The PC recognises it but I can not see any data and there is over 200gb of it. Do I need any xp drivers or anything. XP keeps asking if I want to format it but I do not want to lose any data. Any ideas? Steve

Hi tried the chkdsk command and it says that it does not work on raw disks (whatever that means) so I will try the partition recovery tool. Cheers Hi tried the chkdsk command and it says that it does not work on raw disks (whatever that means) so I will try the partition recovery tool. Cheers

if it's seen as a RAW disk then the partition table is damaged. My guess is that the power failure of the USB tray caused this. All your data is still on the hard drive, and you can take it out with any recovery tool such as GetMyDataBack. With Easeus partition tool you can try to rebuild the MFT (master file table, that basically works as a content page, helping the system to know which file is where). What happened is when the power failure hit the hard drive the MFT got damaged, and now the system cannot read this file. And if it cant read the MFT it thinks the hard drive is RAW, ie. not formatted and blank. In either case, a MFT rebuild or a partition rebuild (depending on the Easeus version you'll use) should solve your problem.
IF it doesnt help you'll have to opt for a data recovery procedure, but then you'll need another hard drive where you can copy the files from the Samsung drive. Once your files are copied you can format the drive and copy them back again.
Hope this helps. if it's seen as a RAW disk then the partition table is damaged. My guess is that the power failure of the USB tray caused this. All your data is still on the hard drive, and you can take it out with any recovery tool such as GetMyDataBack. With Easeus partition tool you can try to rebuild the MFT (master file table, that basically works as a content page, helping the system to know which file is where). What happened is when the power failure hit the hard drive the MFT got damaged, and now the system cannot read this file. And if it cant read the MFT it thinks the hard drive is RAW, ie. not formatted and blank. In either case, a MFT rebuild or a partition rebuild (depending on the Easeus version you'll use) should solve your problem. IF it doesnt help you'll have to opt for a data recovery procedure, but then you'll need another hard drive where you can copy the files from the Samsung drive. Once your files are copied you can format the drive and copy them back again. Hope this helps.