HARD Drive Unformatted itself????

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Anyone have any advice on how to recover data from this situation

I have 3 HDD's in my system, at the weekend, the D:(spare storage) drive suddenly died or more to the point has unformatted itself. Now in windows explorer when i goto access it, it asks me to format it as its unformatted. The drive is quite new, its a Western Digital. Ive used their utitilities and their software says the drive is in good health. So what could have happened?
At the time of the incident, i was copying large files from the C drive over to the D drive.

I cant do chkdsk on the D drive it as windows think the device is in RAW state.
Any other ideas or is the data lost for good?
 
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This has happened to me a few times recently. It changed the drive letter also.

In my case, Explorer was lying.

I changed the drive letter back to my original choice, booted into another OS (I have multiple OSs) and the Drive was seen correctly. Likewise when I re-booted into the first OS.

If you do a format, you will lose the contents of the Drive.
 
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