How to fix external hard disk drive becomes raw problem

Have you ever met the case that the external hard disk drive becomes raw when use it? For example:

Raw file system data recovery

USB drive is unformatted, do you want to format it now? Message above appear when I double click the USB disk drive icon on the computer. I have no idea what’s going on at that time, neither do I now. But I do not choose to format it though I can nit use it until format the external usb drive. I think it may because I hold that I have the chance to recover the original files on the external drive as long as I do not format it. Is there any way for me to restore lost files from the unformatted usb drive?  -Swtt

Seagate external hard disk raw data recovery

Have you ever met some problem when use the Seagate external hard disk or other brands of portable hard drive? For example, the Seagate external hard disk turns to raw file system? It is terrible that the external hard disk get into raw error. We can not use it until format it. What’s more, we can not access files saved on it either format the external hard disk or not format it. it is one kind of data loss situations we may encounter in daily life.

Is there any way to view information originally on the external hard disk when it is raw file system? Actually, we can access them as long as we can recover them from the raw external hard disk. How can we restore needed information from the raw portable hard disk?

How to recover information from the raw Seagate external hard disk

In order to get what we need from the raw external hard disk, we can try data recovery software. Here are the steps as follows:

Step1. Download and install data recovery software on the computer.

Step2. Plug the raw external hard disk into the same computer.

Step3. Open the data restoration tool and then choose recovery model and aim disk to scan.

Step4. Preview the contents in the list after the scan and pick up the files which can be previewed successfully to recover.

Step5. Select one of the computer hard disks as the location to save files to be recovered.

The reasons of external hard disk turn to raw are various. It may because of the virus infection, bad sectors, or others. We should be careful when use it in order to the external hard disk become raw file system and need to be formatted before we can use it though we have known that we can ask data recovery software for help at that time.

Memory card turns to RAW file system and reports not formatted? When you meet the similar problem on your memory card, you can recover files from RAW card by using the data recovery software and then format memory card to convert RAW to FAT32. You can use the software to recover pictures off SD card, microSD card, CF card, XD card and more.

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Memory devices raw file system recovery

We can not use the memory devices such as external hard drive, pen drive , memory card and others when it become raw file system with chkdsk. Here are two examples as follows:

How to convert raw external hard disk to NTFS

Will you choose to format the unformatted external hard disk when chkdsk is not available for raw drives on external? Maybe you will not format it because there are a lot of useful files and folders saved on the problematic external hard disk. What’s more, most of us would think of ways to convert the raw external hard disk to ntfs or other normal file system. Do you have any idea what should we do?