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Damaged RAW drive data recovery

Have you ever met the situation that the hard disk drive is damaged and the file system of it is raw? We would know that there is no way for us to read information saved on the hard drive at the previous time no matter what it is at that time. Is there anything we can do on the damaged raw drive to use it normally and access its original contents? As a matter of fact, we can try to perform the data recovery on the damaged raw drive to get its old data back.

Example of hard drive is damaged and turns to raw

Do you know what I can do when the hard drive was damaged and its file system was raw? I had no idea how the hard disk drive was damaged and turned to raw file system; neither do I know how to fix that problem. But I must access some files stored on the hard drive at the previous time as soon as possible. Is there any advice? As far as I am concerned, it is possible to get the original information from the damaged raw drive though I have no idea what it is exactly. Help me, please. –John from LA

How to retrieve lost files from the damaged raw drive with data recovery software

We can try to use the data recovery software to get the previous files from the damaged raw hard drive if we want to access them again. It is a tool to retrieve the lost information from the memory devices, such as the hard disk drive. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to use it:

Recover data damaged raw hard drive

Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.

1Download and install the data recovery software on the computer.
2Operate the data restoration tool on the computer.
3Choose the recovery model and target disk to recover.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and then pick up the data needed to recover.

Way to protect data on the hard drive from being lost

It is terrible that the information saved on the hard disk drive becomes inaccessible due to some reasons, such as the hard drive shows damaged and raw error when we have to view those contents urgently. We may be able to access those original files thanks to the data recovery tool in the damaged and raw drive case. What if we have no idea how to restore them? So it is necessary to find ways to protect files on the hard drive from being lost. Here are some advices below:

1. Download the anti-virus software and install it on the computer. Nearly all of us need to save files on the hard disk drive, and those contents may be came from the internet, or they are from other storage devices, such as memory card, or other sources. There is a problem we au meet during the process, and that it the virus infection. Virus and worms may be contained on those files which stored on the hard drive, so it is necessary to download and launch the anti0-virus tool on the computer to against it.

2. Remember to save files when edit them on the computer. Sometimes we need to edit files saved on the computer hard disk drive. We must keep it in mind that remember to save those edited contents more than often, because we would lose them if the computer closed abruptly or there are other errors we may meet. We can not access the edited data if the computer closed suddenly after opening it again.

3. Back up files important usually. Some of us may think that t is inevitable to lose files off the hard disk, such as the hard drive may be formatted accidentally or the information on it may be deleted by error, and so forth. It is useful to back up files important in those cases, because we can retrieve them quickly and easily after losing them.

4. Other similar ways to protect contents on the hard disk drive from being lost.

Storage devices can be performed data recovery when damaged

The computer hard disk drive may be damaged and become raw file system when we save files on it, and we may encounter the damaged and raw problem when use other storage devices, such as external hard drive, USB flash drive, memory card and so on. Luckily, we can perform files recovery on all those memory devices in that case.

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