NTFS became RAW

[xLiquidx]

Well my hard drive that was formatted NTFS became RAW today, I tried using programs to get the data back or something but all required money or activation. One of the programs read the hard drive so I know everything is still there.

Now how would I go about making this "RAW" drive NTFS again, or can I? If not how do I get the data back?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

[xLiquidx]

Well I somehow fixed it so I don't need the help anymore. But man that was crazy.

 

[RyanVM]

For the sake of anybody who comes across this thread in the future, what'd you do to fix it?

 

[xLiquidx]

Well you know how you can do a checkdisk on the startup of windows XP, I don't know when or why it does a checkdisk but it just so happened it did after I installed XP on another HDD and it checkdisked my corrupted HDD and it said it was formatted NTFS, not RAW. So I rebooted with just the Hard Drive that I thought corrupted and it worked.

Now if anyone can explain how I did that, like how do you run a checkdisk?

anyways woot! Got my HDD running again

 

[MrGuvernment]

in windows, right click drive / properties / tools / check disk

if the drive is in use, windows will scan it on the next boot.