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Restore WD Elements 2TB external hard drive which has become Raw following a PC crash
Have you ever used WD elements 2TB external hard drive? Do you know how we can access files saved on the portable hard drive when it turns to raw file system due to a PC crash? Just as it known to all of us, the external hard disk drive can not be opened when it is raw file system, so we can not read information saved on it previously or store new contents on it, either. Actually, we can try to get the original information back from the raw external hard drive with data recovery software.
Case of WD elements 2TB external hard drive turns to raw
I had a WD elements 2tb external hard drive on which I have stored a lot of files and folders important. To tell the truth, it brings my life convenience and comfortable. Unfortunately, the portable hard disk drive turned to raw file system when I connected it to my PC, because there is crash at that time. I had no idea why the external USB drive should become raw following a PC crash; neither do I know how to view contents saved on the raw external hard drive previously. Can you tell mw what I should do to access those original consents? -Adam from New York
How to recover files from the raw WD elements 2TB external hard drive with data recovery software
There is no need for us to worry about data loss trouble after the WD elements 2TB external hard drive becomes raw following a PC crash, because we may be able to restore the original files from it under the help of data recovery tool, as we have known. The following steps ate the detailed information how to perform:
Recover files from raw external hard drive
Preparation: Plug the external HDD to your computer and download the data recovery software. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Different situations that the WD elements 2TB external hard drive may become raw
Do you feel strange why the WD external hard drive should become raw file system and unusable? It is true that the portable hard disk drive may turn to raw following a PC crash. Are there any other situations? As a matter of fact, there are more than one cases in which the external hard disk drive may become raw file system and we can not use it before the format. It is terrible for us to encounter them, to tell the truth. How we can avoid them? The first step to try to avoid raw external hard drive is to make it clear in which situation the portable drive may become raw. Here are some of them as follows:
1. PC crash. Our computer may crash sometimes. For example, the PC closed abruptly, or the computer stop working and we can not perform any operation on it, or other situations. The WD external hard drive may become raw file system if it is connected to the computer when there is crash problem. As the same, we can not use the portable hard disk drive at that time. And we need to ask data recovery tool for help if files saved on it are useful and needed to be retrieved.
2. Virus infection. We may meet such problem that the WD portable hard disk drive is infected by virus and worms. And one of the possible reasons of virus attacks is the raw file system error. In other words, the external hard disk drive may turn to raw file system after the virus infection. But we do not need to worry too much, because we still are able to try to restore the previous files from the raw external hard drive with data recovery program in that case.
3. Unformatted WD external hard drive. The portable hard disk drive would show raw file system error if it is not formatted. What’s more, PC operation system would prompt that you have to format the disk in drive O before you can use it or the similar information at that time. It is better to perform raw external hard drive file recovery with data restoration tool at first and then format it in that case.
4. Other situations that the WD elements 2TB external hard drive turns to raw file system.
Brands of external hard drive may show raw problem
Common brand of external hard drive like WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA and others are all supported by data recovery tool when they become raw file system.
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