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Recovering a RAW Hard-drive

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Its saying my E: Drive is Primary MBR not formatted. I don't know how this happened.
Seagate Disc Wizard did something weird to my computer now I have to restore the partition.

I know files are recoverable from this drive but "free" software is very limited so I read that it was possible in a different forum to do a recovery on whatever happened here...

Can anyone give me direction?

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I am running the auto-recovery Expert its taking forever. I don't know what it is doing at this moment. (Not at computer)
Apparently instructions say it will recover "UN-allocated space"

The space is not formatted on my E: Drive that is what it is saying... But it is not saying it is UN-allocated.
I could technically Delete it using the program but I do not want to do anything to the drive... as advice says leave it alone.

Turns out the Auto-Recover is still working... I left it on for an entire night. And an entire day.
Still searching.... It will not do it manually because disc is registering as unformatted instead of unallocated. DO I have to delete it?
Will it recover when I delete it....

Alright you guys....... Not a very active community......

I went ahead and deleted my un-formatted partition then restored it. It looks to me like it worked perfectly.

Will try to boot from that drive in a few minutes.

So my hard-drive booted up..... and worked like a charm.
So if anyone is wondering if your drive just randomly showed up as 'un-formatted' and you need to restore it... then delete it and use Acrinos.