External Disk HDD Suddenly Became RAW

""I found out that my external hard disk became raw 1 hour ago with an extremely vexed mood. I am not a computer pro and this is the first time that I can not even get into the drive, I do not get what is happening now. The computer interface says 'The file system is raw.', and also presents that no any figures on it. I feel so helpless, because 30 minutes later I am going to have a presentation. The material was on this drive and I can only remember very little of it! I need a quick recovery, help!""

"My best friend asked me for the photos of the picnic last weekend we went to which should be on the external hard disk. Yet my pc says there is nothing on it anymore now and the drive is raw. What is the meaning of raw here? Not only the photos there were still lots of data involved with my work. Asking for help here!"

Likewise, maybe the overwhelming majority of people have encountered the similar circumstances about raw drive issues. External hard disk drives are valid and convenient so that people choose them for information keeping, however they would sometimes display the shortcomings. Then when we confront the very torturing obstacle like this what can we do? Very less people know the solutions, now I would like to tell you some knowledge of raw drives.

Why the external hard drive shows the error like this?

The main cause is that the external hard disk is damaged so it shows the wrong format such as raw. The essential format of hard drives should be one of NTFS, fat32, fat16, ex fat, ext3, and ext4 and so on, and when they are impaired they become raw. And the commonest damage is now deemed as corruption. You might be curious about the reasons of corruption now.

What can cause corruption?

1. Virus infection

I believe that everyone can get this cause because it is greatly usual to come across nowadays. Tons of files like music, documents, and pictures are laced up with virus, malware or spyware on line. And if you are careless about avoiding these particularly aimed files your computer and other relevant devices tend to easily get any of them. So be attentive about these crashers.

2. Wrong partition actions

This one is more likely happens to those green hands. Windows system has various types which caused different types of hard drive format (it means the same to external hard disk), and people often casually convert them by some motives. Actually going by the right rules of partitions and converting formats are important to the system safety and hard drives. Therefore confirming the correct steps of such actions should be kept in mind.

3. Inappropriate operations

It is not strange to see that people manipulate computers in the incorrect ways. I think this point should be highlighted due to the consequence is badly influences the computer system. The common signs of wrong movements are unplug the external hard storage equipments from pc recklessly, turning off computer when the drive is opened etc.

How can we fix raw drive?

There are few methods to repair the drive which are aimed to different reasons. Some of them just need simply adjust some options of file system, or you can choose related software to help.

1. System permission issues

A: Open the property button of the raw drive and choose security option, then change the username into yours and at last alter the authorization.

B: Getting into control panel and find administration tools option, after opened it you should choose local security setting. Afterward, open the security setting and find the "Network access: local account's sharing patterns and security pattern" in the right window. Alter the "Guest only" into "classic", and close this window. Get back to my computer and right click the raw drive, choose security label, then delete the digital gibberish. Ultimately add the computer username and the raw drive is fixed.

2. Download the raw drive recovery software to assist you

There are many choice of such software on line and some of them are free. After you download and setup it you can use it to fix the raw drive. They are all easy-to-use software and they can cover lots of files types as well as computer systems. Varieties of data storage devices are included too. So as you can imagine, applying these software is widely chosen by users and mostly gained a great result. After data recovery, you can format the external hard disk.

Other points you wanna know

1. Prior to fix the raw drive, you are supposed to recover the data on the drive if you want them back. This is the right sequence of retrieving data.

2. Do not put anything on the raw drive in case trigger the overwrite, then your infos are irreparable.