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Format RAW to NTFS

Have you ever seen the raw disk? And are you angry if you happen to saw it? But you still have to come up ways to resolve it. Do you have any idea about the hard situation? It is obviously that you should convert its file properties before you could access and handle it normally. How to operate it? It's raw, after all. So you need to restore the lost data first of all. Then you could convert it to NTFS or other file system available. Data recovery software, which could help you realize it.

Situation of encountering data on raw disk

It appears raw file system when I check my disk D. Its capacity, used space and free space all show o bytes, and the file system is raw. What is the matter? I can not access any information because I can't open the disk at all. Should I format it or do something else to it to retrieve the data in it? Is there a converter could I change it to NTFS? I really have no idea, and I still have not taken any action because I hate to do wrong things. So anyone could kindly assist me? - Lyric from Florida

How to salvage lost data on raw disk by data recovery software

RAW drive error can occur on an external hard disk, memory card and hard disk, and more. The right thing to do is to recover the lost information firstly by data recovery software, and use convert tool to change to file system you want.

Recover data from RAW drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Launch the software and go to a proper recovery module. Then, select the device where data got lost and let the software scan the device.

1Download the recovery software on the website and mount it on the computer.
2Open the data recovery tool and click on the target disk to scan.
3Preview files after scanning and select which you need and want to recover.
4Choose the location to save the recovered data.

Reasons that appear raw disk

Maybe you are wondering that how your disk turns to raw, because maybe you could open it normally last time. Here are some common reasons as follows:

1. Infected by virus and worms. It you just save one file which contain virus and worms, it could infect the whole disk in reality, so it lead to the whole disk turn to raw and can not be accessed.

2. The operating system makes mistakes.

3. You do not post processing your images on camera.

4. File type on it was changed after launching operating system.

When you run into RAW drive error, you may want to format the device to fix the problem. However, you had better not format because it will be much more difficlut to recover data after format.

Other file system could be shifted by raw

The files on raw disk could be converted to NTFS as it should be, and you may wonder that could it be converted to other file system, such as FAT and FAT32. You also could convert the raw data to them of course. There is some other file system which is used often besides NTFS, FAT AND FAT32: NTFS5, FAT16, exFAT, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4.

Brief introduction to format raw

You may want to know some information about raw disk after you have cope with your problem. So what is raw disk? Typically, there are two kinds of raw system. One is photos you have taken by your camera without any operation. You need to post processing them before you could view them. What's more, you could determine which kind of shape they look like at last. It is very funny and so many people are fond of it. The other is a system error that makes your partition turn to raw format and you can not access it until the data was recovered by some data recovery software.

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