That sounds like there is a problem with the partition table. I've never heard of anyone rescuing the entire drive and not having to reformat the whole drive.
If you have important data on the drive, it is probably still there, and someone who does data recovery may be able to get it, depending on how bad the partition table is, and if you know exactly what the partition layout was before. I was able to recover all of the data on one of my partitions when the partition table was damaged. I used a little program that is for formatting and partitioning and I rewrote the partition table. The FAT32 data was lost because I didnt get the partition size right, but the ext2 partition was recovered.
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