Hard drive failure; showing in My Computer but can't access it

[ScarySquirrel]

Hi all,

As per the title, the drive is showing in My Computer but it doesn't have its usual name and I cannot access anything on the drive. It doesn't even have any space allocation it seems.

In Disk Management I can see the drive, but it says the type is RAW (rather than NTFS) and it says it has no data on it.

Is there anything I can do to at least get my data off it?

Thanks

 

[ScarySquirrel]

I just downloaded and ran EaseUS and during the scan my hard drive suddenly started working again!

I'm currently moving things over to an external HDD. I'm hoping it holds out until the transfer is done!

How could this happen? It's odd.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

It's a 1Tb Samsung 103 HJ....something or other.

I'm still transferring things, I really hope I can get all I need!