Recovering a NAS hard drive - RAW data

Recovering a NAS hard drive - RAW data

I've not a NAS drive that failed (firmware issue, not data/disk).

It's a SATA drive inside. When I've put it in my PC, it won't mount or be assigned a drive letter. I've also managed to find that all of the data is in RAW format so WinXP won't open it and just wants to format it.

Does anyone know any FREE way I can recover my data?

Someone suggested running Linux (Knoppix) on a LiveCD, but it won't seem to load for me - Just get a blank screen.

Ideas appreciated!

It's a single SATA drive, which is now inside my PC.

This looks good:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

I was using it on a PC, but I've never had to format it.

It's an Iomega Home Media Network Drive - 1TB.

http://www.recuva.com/

Cheers MoS - Will give that a shot.

You used it before?

i've used a few, thats just the newest one i've been recommended thats free and pretty reliable. there's also :

PCI File Recovery ( not bad)
Easy Recovery Pro (better)
Badcopy Pro (okish)

it's usually a case of trying them all and see which works best