Under Computer management, ther under disk management i have a disk 2 status healthy, active primary partition. File system format RAW, however i supposed to have data on here. Any ideas how to acces it without losing data? Also it says under disk management that it is on-line. Not sure what i can do but i really want to recover data. Thank you

You will need to find a third party utility such as R-Drive that might be able to recover data from the drive, but there is no guarantee. Windows 7 does not have the capability to recover data from partitions that are seen as RAW.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

"RAW filesystem" only means that win7 cannot recognize the filesystem on this disk or partition. No more, no less. If you are sure there is a valid filesystem and data, try to boot a different OS on this machine (WinPE, Linux live cd) or move the disk to other machine. --pa