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I need to access data from Raw hard drive

I have 1 TB green caviar WD it was inside arack its my book essential so , it was connected to high power then it failed to power on so i checked on it & the rack isnt working but the harddrive is so I connected it sata with my desktop harddisk & through manage harddisk I initiated it & gave it adrive but i didnt format , so its now read as A RAW harddrive i have 931 gb of my life so its araw drive with 0 bytes i just need the data on that hard drive i tried some softwares & recovery programs like : 
Testdrive 
icare data recovery 
stellar pheonix 

& now am trying easeus , please guys i need help with this , i bough my passport 1tb wd & i want to recover data on it 
I also read that this is due to corruption of file system & there’s some softwares which can rebuild or rewrite this filesystem & then get hdd to work 
What do experts here say ?! 
Thank you very much guys for your time !

If data recovery software doesn’t work then try TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Sometimes running the command prompt to convert from FAT32 to NTFS will fix it this link explains how to run the command prompt http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214579 I would use that last.

Joe

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try the linux reader from diskinternals

Maybe you can try some other softwares to recover data from Raw hard drive;

Such as  

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