Rescue Data from RAW File System, Partition and Hard Drive

What is RAW Hard Drive?

What’s RAW? To be specific, RAW is the default file system of CD-ROM recognized by Windows. In DVD burning methods, there is a RAW mode referring to burn after reading the complete sector data. It can extract not only users’ data, but also data of sub-channels. However, not all burners give support for RAW mode.

Literally, the hard drive which has not been formatted by NT file system, such as FAT and NTFS, is called RAW hard drive. However, from this perspective, nothing should be included in a RAW hard drive because no drive can be put into use for saving data before it is actually formatted.

RAW hard drive problem includes two situations

RAW Hard Drive – the Whole Disk Is RAW

If the operating system you are running now can’t recognize the file system of your hard drive at certain moment, the state of hard drive becomes RAW. At this time, no one is allowed to access any part of the hard drive. Meanwhile, its capacity, used space and unused space will all be shown as “zero”. That is to say, all data originally saved in that “RAW” disk are lost. You can neither see them nor transfer them to safe place for further use. What a tragedy it will be if it includes files of great importance.

It is worth noting that both internal hard drive and external hard drive can become RAW because of inappropriate operation or virus invasion.

RAW Partition – Only One Partition Is Inaccessibleraw partitionWhen damage is only brought to one partition on a hard drive, you’ll find except for this partition, whose file system is RAW now, other partitions are in normal state. You click on the drive and an error message – “The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable” or “You need to format the disk” – will pop up to show that this drive is not accessible.

In this case, choosing to format the drive will help you enter it successfully. However, the formatting will do harm to data in it and possibly all data will be gone because of that. So quit the idea of formatting the RAW partition to make it work properly since this will be done at the cost of losing useful data.

RAW hard drive problem includes two situations

The way to recover data from raw hard drive

Whether you want to recover data from RAW hard drive or just a RAW partition, you will need the help of H-Data Recovery Master as long as the system is crashed and can’t be started as usual. The main functions of that boot disk are basically the same to that of the normal software edition. The only difference lies in that the boot disk doesn’t provide “CD/DVD Recovery” module. For more information about how to use the boot disk, you can visit the related pages on our website. Hope you can solve the RAW hard drive problem without any obstacle.

Easy Interface of Data Recovery from RAW Hard Drive

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References

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