Raw drive recovery how to recover raw drive?

What is Raw drive?

Raw hard drive means that the file system is not recognized by the operating system. You cannot access to this drive. So the Windows will prompts you to format: The disk in drive is not formatted, Do you need to format it now? Please do not format it, or you will lost all your data on this drive. This case often happens when the disk is damaged or corrupted. There are many reasons for a raw partition, such as virus infection, format errors, sudden power loss, partition table lost, bad sectors.

What are the symptoms of a raw hard drive?

1. When you try to access the hard drive,it pops up a message that : The disk in drive is not formatted, Do you need to format it now?

2. 0 Bytes of partition. When you check the properties of this drive, you will find that both of the Used space and Free space are showed as 0 bytes. The file system is not FAT or NTFS, it is showed as RAW.

3. When you try to access this partition, it prompts that Location is not available: The volume does not contain a recognized file system.

4. In the Disk Management, the file system is also showed as Raw.

5. The file names contains weird characters.

6. There is message that Sector not found.

How to fix the Raw partition problems?

If you have important data on this partition, you should back up all the data first before you fix the raw partition. You need to use a data recovery software to recover the lost files first.

How to recover files from the raw partition?

Hdata recovery software is an effective recovery software to help you retrieve the deleted files from the raw partition.

You will see the recovery mode of “ Formatted hard drive accidentally” and “Hard drive partition lost or crash” on the software interface.

Watch the video tutorials to recover deleted files

After you have restored the files on the raw partition, you can start to fix the raw partition.

1. First, you need to run the CHKDSK to check the raw drive. Run this command usually can fix problems.

2. Try to format the raw drive. You can right-click the raw drive and choose to Format this partition. Sometimes, it cannot be formatted successfully. It will pop up a Window that: Windows was unable to complete the format. In that case, you should try to covert the file system.

3. Covert the raw drive to NTFS or FAT file system.

If you cannot complete format, you should covert the file system to fix this problem.

Learn how to convert FAT to file system.

How to prevent raw partition problems?

In order to prevent raw partition problems, you should know that causes for raw partition.

1. Format failures

2. Do not safely remove the removable disk

3. Sudden power shortage

4. Virus infection

Therefore, you should pay attention in using the drive.

1. Keep in mind to remove your device safely.

2. Do not power off your computer or mobile phone, camera before you have safely removed the drive or SD card.

3. Do not download unsafe software or files to your device, and use antivirus software to protect your computer.