Help....in need of a data recovery software program

[Shootingblanks]

I installed my Hitachi 7k250 drive today and am unable to access it. I went into Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management and apparently the hard drive is in RAW format and has lost a partition. Windows 7 prompts me to format the disk and I hit cancel.

Has anyone used Pandora Recovery or Get Data Back?

Which data recovery program do you recommend to get whatever data I can?

[Snyxxx]

Was this only used on a PC before or maybe MAC or Linux?

[Shootingblanks]

This hard drive was used on my last system. The operating system was Windows XP. I had the same raptors I am using now as raid 0 and this was my back up system. My current setup the OS is on my SSD and I have BF2C on it. All the other programs and data I put on my raid that I created with same raptor drives from old system. Eventually I will be upgrading my storage to all SSD when the cost comes down. Till then I will run these sata drives till they no longer work.

[Septim]

data recovery, ive tried playing with linux base "knoppix" cd or dvd... download both, try both... its gui base, so no "command code typing" except for the bootup.

i was successful in recovering some files and transfering them to another harddisk...
sometime the failing harddrive needed some knuckling for it to bboot too...

[Baleful]

Wait... so is this just a backup drive that you need to access to regain files? Or is this a boot drive that want to be able to boot from?

If it's just a backup drive and it has files that you need to access, do what Septim said. Download Knoppix, burn it to a disk, boot your computer from the CD. Once Knoppix as loaded, browse to your backup disk and transfer all the files you need to a different disk.