Have you ever met the case that the external hard disk drive becomes raw when use it? For example:
My WD external hard disk drive shows raw file system suddenly. What’s more, I am asked to format the external hard diskbefore I can use it. I totally have no idea what is going on. Maybe I should format the external hard disk drive so as to use it normally and to save new information on it. But I do not want to format it right now, because I need to access files saved on the external hard disk drive at the previous time. Will I lose those original files forever if I format the portable hard disk drive? How can I view them again? -Fred
One more similar case:
My external hard disk drive is unformatted. I check its disk properties in order to make it clear what is the problem. The reason is that the external hard disk drive is raw file system, and both the used space and free space are 0 byte. Can I use the external hard disk drive normally after formatting it as the system prompts? There is other thing need to be solved. How can I view files saved on the raw external hard disk at the old time? Please help me if you know any information. –Gaby
We can get information from the examples above that the external hard disk drive is not usable if it shows raw file system. What’s more, we can sue it after formatting it as the computer operation system suggested. As for files and folders saved on it at the original time, we may be able to get them back.
How to restore data from the raw external hard disk drive
If we want to get more files back after the external hard disk drive turning to raw file system, we should perform data recovery on raw external hard disk drive before format it. Here are the steps as follows to recover what we need from the raw external hard disk drive:
Step1. Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
Step2. Connect the raw external hard disk drive to the computer, too.
Step3. Open the data recovery tool.
Step4. Choose the recovery model and aim disk to scan.
Step5. Preview the contents in the list after the scan and then pick up the files needed to recover.
Step6. Select the location to save files to be restored.
Data recovery tool have the function to scan files if they are still saved on the raw external hard disk drive and display them on the list. We can recover them if we can preview them clearly and normally.
RAW drive error can not only occur on an external hard drive, but it also occurs on other storage media like memory card. If your memory card turns to RAW file system, you need to connect it to your computer and format the memory card from RAW to FAT32. However, how to get back data after formatting memory card? In this situation, you can also rely on the data recovery software to restore files before formatting card.
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