Hard drive recovery tool How to recover data from raw hard drive/partition?

What is raw hard drive/partition?

Raw hard drive refers to your hard drive has not been formatted by NTFS or FAT file system. You can not use the raw drive to store data before you have formatted it. If your hard drive or partition occasionally become raw, how can you recover the data here? To solve this problem, we must know what are the symptoms of raw partition and why it become raw.

The symptoms of raw partition

1. It become inaccessible and prompts you to format it.

When you try to open it, it pops up a message says that “You need to format the disk before you can use it” or “The volume does not contain a recognized file system”. At this time, you mustn’t format it if you have important data on the drive.

2. The partition is disk management is displayed as raw.

In the disk management, you will see the raw partition and with no file system.

3. It shows 0 bytes is disk Properties.

If you cannot access to a partition, you can right-click it an check the properties. You will find that the used space, free space all show 0 bytes.

Why the hard drive partition become raw?

1. Virus infection

Virus attack is one of the most common reasons for raw hard drive. As we rely on the Internet in work and daily life, our computer are vulnerable to be infected by virus. The hard drive is possible to become raw after virus attack.

2. File system or partition table damage

The file system damage or partition table table damage can cause the hard drive become raw.

3. Hard drive physical damage

The physical damage of hard drive like bad sectors may cause you cannot access to the hard drive.

4. The cable problem

If the the hard drive cable is broken or is bad contact, the hard drive may cannot displayed in the computer.

How to recover data from raw hard drive/partition?

Once you found your entire hard drive or one partition become raw, you should keep calm. Please do not write any new data to this raw drive or format it if you want to recover all your data back. The data recovery software can help you to retrieve the files on your raw hard drive.

Download and install Hdata recovery software on your computer.

Click Hard drive partition lost or crash from the software interface or the Universal Recovery.

Choose the partition which become raw and then to scan it. It will automatically scan the files on the raw partition.

After scanning, all the it shows scanned results, you can preview and check the file folders you need.

Choose a recovery path for the files on the raw partition. You should not select the raw partition as a recovery path in case there is data overwritten. Click Next to recover.

If every thing goes well, you have successfully recovered all your data back. To avoid the possible data loss due to raw partition, you should know the factors which results into raw hard drive, and learn the better way to recover data after the partition become raw. The best way to prevent data loss is to back up your data regularly before the hard drive failures or data loss occurs.