Lost photos on old laptop Hard drive.

Hi there, i had an old Sony laptop which stopped working so i removed the hard drive to try and recover the data (mostly the old photos we have on it). I bought the communicator C1 to try and retrieve the data with no success. I then researched a little and came across piriform recur a to recover the data but whenever i try a scan on the device it comes up with no results and the text "invalid drive size". When i click on the properties of the HDD it says it is RAW format?? i thought there was only FAT32 and NTFS. not sure where to go from here now really. any help would be great.