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How to Format RAW to NTFS without Losing Data
Have you ever troubled by raw disk? RAW drive error can occur on different device. For example, a flash drive wil turn to RAW file system, an external hard disk will become inaccessible due to RAW drive error and a memory card can be unreadable due to raw. There is nothing you can operate on data saved on it once you meet the raw disk. So you need to deal with this problem such as convert it to another file system. Do you know how to convert it to NTFS on the condition that not losing any data? This means that you could not format the raw disk before file system turning to NTFS. The correct solution is to restore the inaccessible data first with the help of data recovery software and then convert it.
Example of encountering raw drive
My drive E turns to raw and I don't know why. I watched program saved on it yesterday normally but I can not open it any more today. No one around me could tell me what's going wrong and I look at its file system which shows raw file system. I have saved many vital and classical movies, TV programs and pictures on it. I don't want to lose them, any one of them. But I do not know what to do in order to find back those files can not be accessed. Please help me. –Bibber from Philadelphia
How to restore files on raw disk to NTFS without data loss
It is quiet easy for you to retrieve data saved on the raw disk and convert it to NTFS format with the assistant of data recovery software, because there is just few steps need your operation. Connect the external hard disk or memory card to the computer if they are the raw drives. Here are steps below:
Recover data from raw drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, run the data recovery software and select a proper recovery option for raw drive recovery.
Reasons of disk turning to raw
You may have no idea about why your disk turns to raw when you encounter it. As a mater of fact, there are many different answers for question above. You could try to avoid this terrible situation after knowing them. Here are some common reasons below which bring about raw disk:
1. Infected by worms and virus.
2. Partition was destroyed.
3. Reinstall the system.
4. File table error.
5. Other related reasons.
Caution while retrieving data on raw drive
Some people could not find back data saved on the raw disk successfully due to the improper operation. So it is important for users to how to treat the raw disk correctly before they have retrieve information from the raw drive with data recovery software. Here are some tips to guarantee the success of data restoration.
1. Do not format the raw disk before you have restored data from the raw disk.
2. Do not save new files on the raw disk.
3. Do not store the recovered information on the raw drive first
4. Do not save the data recovery software folder on the raw disk.
Brief explain about format raw and NTFS
Both raw and NTFS are kinds of file system. Raw could refer to file system and disk partition. Some cameras save pictures took as raw system, while others are jpg. Raw means original and unprocessed, so you have to post process photos saved as raw system before you could view them on other digital devices. As for disk partition, it is compared with other file system such as FAT and NTFS. Raw disk means disk has not been formatted by NT file system. NTFS is a advanced file system with the quality of safety, reliability.
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