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How to Change Raw to NTFS without Formatting
Do you know what a raw disk is? To be short, you can not access any information saved on it. It is an inaccessible drive. You must want to find back that lost data if it is important or crucial and turn it to other file system, such as NTFS. But what would you do to retrieve files saved on the raw disk successfully? Do you have any idea how to change raw to NTFS without formatting? Honestly, you should find back the lost data with data recovery software and then turn it to NTFS.
Case of encountering a raw drive which lead to data loss
I surprisingly found the file system of my drive D is raw last afternoon. Both used space and free space are 0 bytes. What's more, the capacity also shows 0 bytes. I need to send the job plan to my boss by tomorrow and I don't have any backup. I set the drive D as working disk so I save every file related my work on it. But now all of them are inaccessible. What should I do to get back all my losses and let the drive D turn to normal. By the way, I can not format it. –Glico from Australia
How to restore files from the raw disk with data recovery software and change them to NTFS
You should find back data saved on the raw disk with data recovery software first and then change it to NTFS you wanted. Usually, you can recover data from RAW external hard disk, flash drive, memory card, hard disk, and more other device.
Recover data from raw drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Launch the software and select a proper recovery module.
Reasons that result in raw disk
Disk turns to raw will irritate you if you saved vital or precious files on it, because there is no way for you to read or write any one of them. What makes things better is to recover lost data with data restoration program. There are some common reasons that bring about raw drive if you want to know as follows:
1. Install new operating system. It may because of the defect of the operating system itself or the imperfection of FAT or NTFS.
2. Infected by virus and worms. It is likely to turn to raw if there is harmful software or suspicious information saved on the storage devices.
3. File table error. When file system goes wrong, Win OP will acquiesce in raw.
Once data is recovered, you can format the RAW drive to change its file system back to NTFS or FAT32.
Brief introduction to file system
File system the way and data structure for operating system to clear and definite files saved on the storage devices (the most common is hard disk, but also could be solid state disk based on NAND Flash) or partition. Put simply, it is the way to organize files saved on the storage device. Here are some file systems below: FAT, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, RAW, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, Btrfs, ZFS, HFS, etc.
File types that could be restored by data recovery software
Data recovery software is a powerful data recovery tool which could retrieve almost all kind types of files on the condition that those files have not been overwritten by other new data. So we could choose data recovery software to restore information once it was lost. Data restoration program could retrieve the following types of files generally: Pictures, videos, music, audios, texts, emails, phone numbers, etc.
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