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RAW External HDD by Error / Recover Data When External HDD Shows RAW File System

Do you have any idea how to access data on the external HDD when it turns to raw? The raw external hard disk drive is unusable unless being formatted. Though we can use the external hard disk drive normally to store new information on it after formatting it, files and folders saved on it previously have been erased already. So the way to format the raw external hard disk drive is not the method to access data on it. But we can restore those files from the raw external hard disk drive to view them.

Case of external hard disk drive turning to raw

What a terrible thing that my external HDD showed raw error when I connected it to the computer to view its data at the third time. Why I know it was in raw trouble is that I checked its disk properties when could not open the drive, and then I saw the information that file system is raw. When I right clcik the external disk, Windows says that the external hard disk needs to be formatted. What should I do truly? I can not lose files saved on it originally and need to use that external hard disk drive continually; I just bought it days ago after all. Help me, please. –Lily form New York

How to restore lost data from the raw external hard disk drive with data recovery software

We can restore those inaccessible files and folders from the external hard disk drive to access them normally. What we should do is to recover them from the external hard disk drive before being formatted with the help of data recovery software. Here are the steps below to retrieve needed information by data recovery tool:

Recover data from raw external hdd

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the external hard disk drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.

1Download and install the data recovery software on the computer.

2Insert the external hard disk drive which is not formatted to the exact computer.

3Open the data restoration tool and then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.

4Preview the contents displayed after the scan, and pick up the files need to be restored to recover.

Series of external hard disk drive formatting problem

We may meet different problems when use the external HDD in daily life, such as deletion case, formatting one, virus infection example, and so forth. No matter which kind of problems they are, the common result of them is to lose files and folders saved on the external hard disk drive originally. We can ask the data recovery tool for help at that time. Today let us talk about the formatting case only. Here are some common external HDD formatting cases as follows:

1. The external hard disk drive is formatted by accident or on purpose. Information saved on the external HDD will be lost if it is formatted either accidentally or intentionally. We may format the external hard disk drive to anti virus, to delete files, or to other events. We can restore those lost contents after format the external hard disk drive if they are still useful.

2. The formatting process to external hard disk drive is not completed. We may not be able to format the external HDD successfully on the computer and be prompted that windows can not complete the format some times. There must be something goes wrong on the computer or the external hard disk drive itself at that case. We still can ask the data recovery tool for help if data important was lost.

3. The external hard disk drive shows unformat error. We may see message that you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it, do you want to format it now on the computer when try to open the external HDD. We meet the external hard disk drive unformat error at that time, we can also call it external hard disk drive raw problem. Data recovery software is helpful at that time, too.

4. Other related external hard disk drive formatting problem, such as windows can not format the external HDD.

Popular brand of external hard disk drive

People else may have met external hard disk drive raw problem like one in example above when buy the external HDD in a short time. One of the reasons is that the external hard disk drive they bought with poor quality. So there are problems occurring when use it at the second or third time. We should purchase one from a reliable source in order to use it normally. Here are some common brands of external hard disk drive below: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA

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