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RAW Unformatted Seagate backup Plus 2TB 4TB Portable External Recovery
Do you have any idea what the raw drive is? Actually, it means the system error. Have you ever met the raw Seagate external hard drive? We would know that the portable hard drive can not be used including access its files and store new data on it if it is raw file system. What should we do if we want to view stored on it previously? There is a way to access those contents. What is supposed to do is to restore the inaccessible data from the raw external hard drive.
Case of Seagate portable external hard drive becoming raw
I need your guys help to fix the raw problem. My Seagate portable hard drive portable external hard drive turns to raw and I do not know the reason. It can not be used normally before being formatted, what is the system prompted me. But I do not want to format it at all. There are a lot of precious files saved on it and I can not lose them. So I am in a hard situation now. No matter I format the portable external hard drive or not, I can not access those contents. What should I do seriously? -Myra form LA
How to restore files from the raw Seagate external hard drive with data recovery software
We can retrieve those files which stored on the portable external hard drive at the previous time at first when it turns to raw and can not be used normally. But we should not format the raw drive firstly but to format it after the data recovery process. Here are the steps to recover lost information with data recovery software below:
Recover data from raw external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the Seagate external hard disk drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Attention should be paid when retrieve the needed files
Data recovery software can help us restore information needed form the portable external hard drive when it is raw file system. So it means that we can get files back from the portable external hard drive which is not formatted with the help of data recovery tool. In order to restore what we want totally, we should be careful and do not perform incorrect operation on the problematic portable external hard drive. Here are some tips as follows:
First and foremost, we should not format the raw portable external hard drive at once. We know that we can not use the portable external hard drive unless format it, and then we can save new information on it. But what we have ignored is that data saved on it previously is lost in that way. What w should know is that there is a bigger chance to recover files from the unformatted portable external hard drive then form the formatted portable external hard drive when it shows raw error. So we should retrieve needed data at first and the format the raw drive.
Second, it is better to plug the portable external hard drive which shows not formatted error out of the computer. We should remove the raw portable external hard drive from computer if we have no idea how to restore files saved on it at the original time. The aim is to avoid the overwriting and other corruption problem happen to the portable external hard drive. What’s more, we should put it in a safe place.
Third, Do not store any new information on the raw portable external hard drive. The new data may overwrite the original files which are inaccessible saved on the portable external hard drive. We can not save them on the portable external hard drive before being formatted. If we accidentally format that raw drive at first, we should store any new data on it, including the data recovery tool and files to be restored.
Fourth, the other related cautions to recover lost data successfully.
Popular brands of portable hard drive
We are discussing the Seagate portable external hard drive raw problem in this passage. But as it known to all, there are some other popular brands of portable external hard drive in the market. And as the Seagate one, they also may become raw some times due to some reasons. We can ask the data recovery program for help, too. Here are some common brands of portable external hard drive below: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA
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