3TB Seagate GoFlex External Drive corrupt

[3FIRELEGS]

This is an external GO FLEX 3TB hard drive on USB.
I have taken off the enclosure so now it's only a 3TB internal drive:
st33000651as  3tb.

I have used some software to recover almost all the files, but they are not usable: JPG, PDF, PST files etc.        

My understanding is that some boot sector/filesystem data is messed up, so even if the files are recovered, the beginning and ending sectors of each file are wrong -- that's why the files although recovered are not usable.    Do you guys have a clue how to recover this 3TB drive?

I did try to accidentally initialize this drive in a RAID setup as a hot-swap replacement.... that might have messed up a lot of things already.

[Tom]

Yes, sounds like this will not work out well. Give iRecover a try, install the demo and analyze the disk to see what can be found.

[3FIRELEGS]

I attached the HDD via  a USB doc to my Win 2003 server.
iRecover is running on the Win 2003 system.
It says 98% of the files are validated.   Does that mean I will recover 98% of the files?

I have made a purchase and trying to see if the recovered files are actually usable.

[Tom]

It says 98% of the files are validated.   Does that mean I will recover 98% of the files?

No, it means that 98% of the file types that are known to iRecover appear to be ok: by checking a number of file types and checking their state one can predict the state of all files on the disk, but it remains a prediction; the true test is to recover the files and check them.

I have made a purchase and trying to see if the recovered files are actually usable.

Let us know how things turn out.

[3FIRELEGS]

The program iRecover keeps crashing before doing a thorough scan of the 3TB hard drive.

[Tom]

Could you send the iRecover log file? It's in the program's install folder. Zip it up and send it to support@diydatarecovery.nl