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I have a 2TB USB Windows hard drive which suddenly became RAW.
The hard drive contains only HD movies, mkv files. There's no OS there.

From this link and this link, it seems I may get the chance to recover the data using Ubuntu Live CD.
So I download the Ubuntu iso file and burn it to a blank DVD.

After I boot from the Live CD, I use the "Try Ubuntu" option, but the raw drive is not listed in "Files" directory as seen below :
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After playing around what is inside the Ubuntu desktop, I found a "Disks" icon, so I double click it and it show the raw drive (orange highlighted) :
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Based from reading in the internet, I open the terminal window and type sudo fdisk -l, and the result is below :
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with red text "partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary" at the bottom.

The CrystalDisk information result show like below:
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I need help from the experts if there is a way to have Ubuntu read the raw hard drive and explore it so I can copy it to another hard drive.

Any kind of respond would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advanced.

PS : Sorry I forgot to mention that I've tried TestDisk from Windows 10. But it seems there is something wrong with the drive which cause it became so hot after about 3 hours of Deeper Search. So I stop it. I post this "hot" problem in the Super User SE.

karma
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Your disk has been marked as "raw" because the filesystem was corrupted for some reason (not ejecting, not shutting down, bad luck, whatever). You can likely repair the disk with a command line tool known as fsck. You may want to look at this U&L post, as well as here. You're going to want to boot into the live CD / USB drive and run fsck from a terminal. From man fsck:

fsck [-sAVRTMNP] [-C [fd]] [-t fstype] [filesys...] [--] [fs-specific-options]

What this means is you need to find the identifier of your disk (in your screenshot /dev/sda1, though you should check again with sudo fdisk -l to be sure, especially after reboots), and run the command:

sudo fsck -t NTFS /dev/sda1

(replace NTFS with FAT32 if that was the format of the drive). If all goes well (which it may not), you should be able to mount the disk manually or reboot your computer and access the drive. If fsck has errors, edit your answer to include them as well.

Pixelated Fish
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