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 disk
before 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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