External HDD Became RAW

Hi Folks…so here is the issue that has been taking my sleep for about two weeks already. Have a WD External Drive 2TB that worked great for about two years storing all my stuff, and two weeks ago it simply decided not to work anymore and it became RAW. Basically I have 500GB worth of data that I would like to recover however it has shown to be to be more complicated that I thought.

Found TestDisk tool which has already recovered as small portion of my files (not even 5%) and it takes days running. Also found a tool called EaseUS (U$60,00 - I bought it) which apparently could see my files then I selected all of them and the program took 3 days when it finally said “completed” but NOT - I would never recommend their software to anyone.

So here I am, there is lots of data I still need and no solution seem to be able to do the job.

Has anyone faced, solved or have any suggestions to a case late this?

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