How to Deal with a RAW Drive?

SD card shows RAW file system and blank? RAW is the original state of the drive, which can not be read by the computer. So, in order to make it be recognized by the computer, we should format it to partition it.

However, formatting or partitioning the drive can wipe out everything saving on the drive. That’s to say, it can result in a great data loss. But how many persons can afford the data loss? Therefore, after the RAW problems occur to us, we should keep calm and do the following steps to save both of our drive and our data there. 

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1. Verify whether your drive has been physically damaged.
The physical damage can cause many odd problems including the RAW stuff. So you should use some checking tools to help you. If it has been damaged, unfortunately, you’d better give up this drive and buy a new one. If you insist on retrieving your files on physical damaged drive, you can ask an expert to take a chance. 
2. Make sure whether the data on your drive matters a lot.
If you are sure the data on it matters a lot, naturally, you also cannot format it right now, which may lead to much data loss. What you can do to reverse the situation is to recover your data by applying a recovery utility. 
3. Make up your own decision to pick a suitable recovery program out.
To pick a satisfying data recovery program out always annoys us all the time, for we can easily know that there are too much recovery utilities that we cannot make our decision quickly. Therefore, we can search on the internet or consult the technologist for help.  With a good data recovery program, you are able to recover corrupted RAW memory card, external hard drive, USB drive, etc.
4. Format your drive for the future use.
After the successful recovery, we could format the RAW drive for the future use without any worrying.

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