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RAW Sony External Hard Disk Drive / Restore Data off RAW Sony External Hard Disk Drive
We can check the disk properties if we can not open the Sony external hard disk drive. And then we may find its file system is raw at that time. Do you have any idea to solve the external hard disk drive raw problem? We can format it to save new information on it. But what about the original files stored on it before? How to access them when the external hard disk drive turns to raw? The flexible way is to retrieve them at first, and then we can view those contents.
Example of Sony external hard disk drive turning to raw
My Sony external hard disk drive does not work normally and I have no idea how to fix it. The detailed question is that it can not be opened any way. System suggests me to format the problematic external hard disk drive before we can use it. It is raw file system according to the result of disk properties checking. What is going on? What is raw file system at all? I need to access files stored on that problematic external hard disk drive previously. Any one could kindly help me? -Sour form Utah
How to retrieve data from the raw Sony external hard disk drive with data recovery software
The way to access files form the external hard disk drive which shows not formatted error is to restore them. We can recover them with the help of data recovery tool from the raw external hard disk drive and then access them. Then we can format the raw drive to use it normally. Here is the guiding information to retrieve those files:
Recover data from raw external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect Spny the external hard disk drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Other data loss problems may happen to Sony external hard disk drive
The Sony external hard disk drive may turn to raw due to some reasons, ad then data saved on it at the previous time will be lost. It is one of the data loss situations that external hard disk drive becomes raw file system error. We can get that then there are other kinds of data loss problems that could happen to Sony external hard disk drive. We should be careful enough to avoid them in daily life. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Accidental or intentional deletion. If we delete files saved on the Sony external hard disk drive accidentally or intentionally, such as directly delete, shift delete, clean the recycle bin, and so forth, we can ask the data recovery tool for help. It can help us get those lost contents quickly and safely. What we should take notice of is that do not store any new data on the external hard disk drive in case of overwriting.
2. Intentional or accidental formatting. Like the raw external hard disk drive which is not formatted, if we formatted the Sony external hard disk drive due to some aims, data saved on it would be lost entirely. At that moment, those lost files also could be retrieved by data recovery program. This is the powerfulness of the data recovery tool.
3. Virus attacks. The Sony external hard disk drive may be damaged if there are files which contain virus or worms stored on it. Virus and worms will infect the external hard disk drive quickly and severely. We may lose some or all files on the external hard disk drive, such as them become messy codes or others after the virus infection. Data recovery tool is also helpful at that time.
4. Other similar logical data loss problems that could be solved by data recovery program.
Kinds of file system
We have known that raw is a file system error, which means not formatted. Now that raw system is one of the file systems and it is an error. There must be other kinds of file system. Certainly there are other types of file system which are normally to use, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, ex FAT, and so forth. We can convert the raw Sony external hard disk drive to one of the normal file systems after all wanted contents have been restored.
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