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The drive was damaged due to a power outage and shows raw file system
Do you know what would happen if the computer closed abruptly due to power outage when the external hard drive connected to it? Actually, the external drive may be damaged and turn to raw file system after that. As a result, we can not access files stored on that drive at the previous time if it was damaged and turned to raw. What if those original contents were important? Do not worry, as we can try to retrieve them from the damaged and raw external hard drive.
Case of external hard drive showing damaged and raw problem
My external hard drive was damaged due to a power outage and showed raw file system. My computer closed abruptly because of power failure when I read files saved on the external hard drive last night. The portable hard disk drive was unusable when I open the computer again. What's more, the file system of that external hard drive was raw when I checked its disk properties later. How should I solve the damaged and raw external hard drive problem to access its previous data? -Linda from LA
How to restore files from the damaged raw external hard drive with data recovery software
Actually, it is easy to solve the external hard drive damaged and raw problem. What we need to do is to perform data recovery on it at fist to get its previous contents back to access them and then format the problematic drive to save new information on it. Here are the steps as follows to retrieve data from damaged and raw drive:
Recover data after power outage
Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Problems we may meet when save information on the external hard drive
It is one of the problems we may encounter that the computer closed suddenly due to power outage and then the external hard drive which was connected to the computer at that time became damaged and raw. We can solve the damaged raw external drive problem with data recovery tool to read its previous files, but what about other problems? As a matter of fact, data recovery program is useful for us in most data loss problems. Here are some of them below:
1. The external hard drive gets into not formatted trouble. Disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? We may see such prompt on the computer screen when connect the portable external drive to the computer if it was damaged due to power failure. It is better to perform files recovery on it with data restoration tool and the format it as we have talked to solve the external hard drive damaged and unformatted problem well.
2. The external hard disk drive is plugged out of the computer directly. The external hard drive may be damaged and turn to raw file system if it was removed from the computer abruptly when files saved on it at the previous time was in the process of being reading or writing. So we should not plug the portable hard drive out of computer suddenly or directly but safely though we can perform data recovery on it to retrieve the original information.
3. There are files contain virus saved on the external hard drive. Harmful matters such as virus and worms may be hidden in the files which saved on the portable hard disk drive sometimes. What’s more, the external hard drive may be damaged and become raw files system if those harmful contents infect the external hard drive. We can ask data recovery tool for help after the virus infection, actually.
4. Other problems related to data loss logical we may encounter when store files on the external USB drive.
File types can be recovered from raw damaged drive
Do you know which types of files can be recovered from the damaged and raw drive? Actually, we may be able to get nearly all types of contents back from the damaged raw drive under the help of data recovery program, such as pictures, videos, audios, and so on.
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