Open raw drive without formatting

Question

I have a disk from a laptop that died.

The disk is functioning correctly and not broken, but it is in RAW file system format and I cannot open it from windows.

I have tried mounting it in a virtual machine with virtualbox but i get an access denied error.

My question is how can I get the files from this drive.Any method is acceptable, file recovery software, formatting to NFTS without erasing data or mounting it on a linux system in a VM

Answer 1

I ended up using Test Disk to open the disk through the console with the help of This article.

Then I just copied the important files to my computer.

Answer 2

You can boot Hiren's BootCD and use Mini WindowsXP to easily copy files from your old drive to new location (i.e. external HDD).