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The type of the file system is RAW recovery when CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives
Have you ever failed to CHKDSK because of the raw file system of hard drives? Maybe it is known to all of us that it is impossible to perform CHKDSK operation on the hard disk drive if it is raw file system. What’s more, the hard disk drive is unusable before the format, so we need to format it at first if we have to use it normally. As a result, we lose files and folders saved on the hard drives at the original time. Luckily, the raw file system data recovery is available in that case.
Case of failing to CHKDSK of raw hard drive
I wanted to perform CHKDSK on one of the partition on my computer, but it was failed at last. I had no idea what was going on in the beginning. One of my friends suggested me to see the file system of that disk drive. I saw the file system is raw after clicking on the disk properties of that disk drive. Is CHKDSK not available for raw hard disk drives? It seems that. What I want to do now is to access contents stored on that drive at the previous time. How can I read them again? -Pepper from Detroit
How to get information back from the raw hard drives with data recovery software
It is not true that there is no way to view files on the hard disk drive previously after it turning to raw file system. As a matter of fact, we can try to restore those original contents from the raw hard drives with data recovery program. The following steps may help us know more related information about it:
Recover files from raw drove
Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Features of raw hard drives
1. Disk space is 0 bytes to raw hard disk drives. We can right click the hard disk drive icon to check the disk properties of it when it is raw. We can see the file system of it is raw. What’s more, the disk space is 0 bytes, and both the used space and used space are 0 bytes, too. It means that there is nothing has been saved on the raw hard drive or we can store new information on it. We need to format the hard disk drive in that case to use it normally and convert its file system to normal.
2. Conversion is not available if the hard disk drive is raw file system. We may have such thought that we can convert the raw hard disk drive to NTFS or other file system normal to access data saved on it at the original time or store new files on it. But as a mater of fact, conversion is not available for raw hard disk drive. It means that we can not convert it to normal at that time. What we need to do before the conversion is to format the raw drives.
3. Disk unformat prompt when the hard disk drive is raw file system. We would see such prompt that disk is not formatted and do you want to format it now when we try to use the hard disk drive normally. It shows that we can not use it until format the hard disk drive if it is raw file system. We can try to retrieve the data useful from the raw drives at first and then format it at that moment.
4. Other expressions when the hard disk drives turn to raw file system.
Storage devices may become raw file system
There are various sorts of storage devices we may use in daily life, such as the external hard disk drive, USB flash drive, SD card, CF card, SM card, MMC card, memory stick, XD picture card, and so on. As the computer hard disk drives, all of them above may become raw file system and CHKDSK is not available for them. But we can also perform raw drives recovery on any one of them if we need to access files stored on them at the original time.
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