NTFS Boot Sector Corruption

[notSquirt]

Hello! For the last year or so i've been using an external 1tb drive. Recently, I rebooted my PC and the drive was marked as a "RAW" partition, and when I ran chkdsk /f on the drive, it gave the following error: 

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The type of the file system is NTFS.
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt.
Reading second NTFS boot sector instead.
Unable to determine volume version and state.  CHKDSK aborted.

What can I do?

[fuzz0r]

It usually isn't good news.

I think the drive might be dead.

[OddOod]

fuuuuck. How important is this install to you? The data is all still there, but this specific install might be an absolute dick to get back.

 

Written on a computer where this happened which now has a boot sector in the middle of the drive

[notSquirt]

As an aditional detail, the drive has had this same issue where it's gone "RAW", but has been fixable with chkdsk or a format. I want to leave formatting last resource since it's got some data that I can't get anywhere and it's 600 GB of redownloading stuff on a 2mbps network so yeah.