I googled and found this
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Hard Drive Has changed to RAW format
by framplot / January 17, 2010 10:04 AM PST
In reply to: Hard Drive changed to RAW format
Three days ago my music and photo hard drive (with a total of 950,000 files on it), suddenly changed to the RAW format.
I found a link to the Easeus Data Recovery programme. (It's a free download to early February 2010)
Don't touch it with a bargepole. It took more than ten hours to "examine" my drive, at which point it told me there were more than 90 partitions on the drive and I could only select 4 files a time for restoration. (Confirmed by Easeus when I emailed them !!)
Go for FILE SCAVENGER - it's simply fantastic. It took 41 seconds to examine my drive, all file names were maintained, as was the full file structure, and in just over one hour it has restored ALL the data.
I wasn't too bothered about the photo's but losing the music would have gutted me. I'm pleased to say I'm listening to some tracks at the moment.
I'm not a "geek" by any stretch of the imagination so I don't have a clue how File Scavenger does such an amazing job. All I can say is that I can certainly vouch for the fact that it works !!
Oh yes, I'm using Win 7, and File Scavenger works perfectly.
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Could be an ad by this company disguised as a review but you might look at File Scavenger. I've used the tool RECUVA before for deleted files. Might be another option to try. It's free