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Seagate External Disk RAW File System Data Recovery

What kind of obstacles did you come across during the time when you operate the computer or other equipments related to it? Network failure? Had a virus infection? Hard disk drives got formatted? All these problems are very common and currently the issues about hard disk drives are very frequently happened.

"MI use my Seagate external disk drive a lot to reserve the study materials and reports for university. But just 30 minutes ago I found out that my Seagate external hard disk drive exhibits RAW files system, and it does not allow me to get entry. I have formatted it before, but this kind of situation is the first time I met. I have a very important tutorial in 3 hours and my report is on it which needed to print it out. Have i already lost all the data on it or just can not get into it? What can do with it?"

"What does RAW file system mean? Yesterday I wanted to use the Seagate external hard disk to make backups, but the computer indicated the drive was raw and it was empty, which means I do not have all my data on it now. I pulled it out and tried it on other computers but it did not work as well. There must be something wrong in my drive. How can I do to fix it and also recover my lost data back?"

Among many Seagate hard disk drives problems, maybe Seagate raw drive condition has not been referring that much as formatting issues. However it still affects us since it could imply the damage of our drives. And is there any solution of making the Seagate raw drive back to normal state coupled with retrieving the lost data back? Your best choice is to use data recovery softwares helping you convert the Seagate external hard disk drive from RAW to NTFS or FAT32.

What is raw file system state?

Raw file system state means the file system can not be recognized by operating system and it is inaccessible, also usually the disk capacity shows nothing is on it.

What are reasons of causing a Seagate external hard disk drive to be raw state?

1.The logical damage is existing here, which can cause the Seagate external hard disk drive stay as raw condition. Logical damage breaks the coherent structure of the file system, so that the operating system does not recognize it as a normal files system. Under such situation, formatting this Seagate external hard disk drive would be fast choice, but if you have the data recovery softeware, you can rescue the important data on it first thought.

2. The physical damage is existing, which can make the Seagate external hard disk drive stay as raw condition. Physical damage like the bad sector existing or virus attacking fragments the structure of the drive. Sometimes you need to take it to the professional experts to repair it.

What can data recovery software does here?

Data recovery softwares are for data loss situations. Here we will highlight the raw files system recovery function of them. This function is specially designed for rew condition drives, you can finish the files system recovery by click this button. After that you might carefully follow the instruction to convert the format of this file system. However if you need the disappeared data back, then you should choose to scan the affected drive and patiently wait for a while, the lost data would later be brought back on the drive visibly.

Other traits of data recovery softwares:

Virtually not only for Seagate external hard disk drives, the full-fledged data recovery softwares are capable to cope with other brands too, like Toshiba, Samsung, Kingston, Western digital, Ithink and so on. Likewise, the data recovery softwares are also good at recover all types of files, documents, music, pictures and videos. They are able to recovery data from internal hard disk drives, USB flash or pen drives, SD card, memory card, security digital card, memory sticks and so on.

Recent years, data recovery softwares are becoming more and more popular, tons of users have given their compliments and cognitions to them.

Notes:

1. Making backups is a very crucial point in our daily lives and that only require few minutes. But the convenience that it can provide us is too great to neglect.

2. We should foster a good habit of inspecting our computer regularly in order to make the things more methodically.

3. Antivirus program is very necessary for all of us as currently there is a great deal of chances to get virus from internet or from those virulent computers. Plus, virus attacking could make us lots of trouble like hard disk drives corruptions, data loss and so on.

4. Be careful about overwriting because you might lost your chance to retrieve your lost data back.

Recover Data before Fixing RAW Drive Error

If data stored on the RAW Seagate external hard disk is important, you need to run data recovery software to get back lost files from the RAW drive first of all. When data has been restored successfully with the data recovery software, you can format the Seagate external hard drive to fix RAW file system problem.

Recover data from RAW Seagate external hard disk

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the Seagate external hard disk to your computer. Then, run the software and go to a proper recovery module.

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