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How to Recover RAW Pen Drive use Any Software

In general, a raw pen drive needs recovering in order to make files inside accessible. To achieve this goal, you can take advantage of the data recovery software. This software is able to restore most files on your pen drive, so long as they are not damaged or overwritten by other stuffs.

How to recover a RAW pen drive by using any software?

Once your pen drive changed into a raw file system, you will not be able to access the data inside it any more. It will show you that there is 0 byte used and 0 bytes left for use. In that case, the data cannot be read or written by anyone. You have to format it in order to use it again. The file system must be changed into FAT or NTFS from raw.

My pen drive has turned a raw one with all the data inside inaccessible. Whenever I attempt to open the files or folders on it, it says "Invalid media type reading drive. Abort, Retry, Fail?" My files in it are very important to me, how will I recover them?

How to identify a RAW pen drive?

Usually, a pen drive with a raw file system will not allow people to access the data in it, provided that you attempt to open the files, you will get the error message like "disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" or "disk is not recognized". When you open the properties of the pen drive, it shows 0 byte memory used and 0 byte memory available. Once these errors get in the way, you might as well quit accessing the data or trying to format the pen drive. The only way acceptable is to recover the data inside the memory disk.

What are the factors which may cause a RAW pen drive?

There are many factors that can result in a raw pen drive, such as virus attacks, format failure, improper operation, bad sectors and a sudden power failure during the usage of a pen drive. In fact, most of the causes can be avoided by users' attentiveness. For example, we can reduce the risk of virus infection by downloading secure software and visiting safe website only. And also, we can avoid a sudden power-off in terms of an uninterrupted power supply.

How can we recover files from pen drive that is RAW?

Before recovering the files inside the pen drive, we'd better not rush to format the disk, because this action will only make things worse. Once the pen drive is formatted, the data in it will be extremely hard to restore. To guarantee the greatest chance of data recovery, we should do the recovery job before the formatting task. Retrieving files from a raw pen drive by data recovery software is not difficult at all. You can follow these simple steps to complete the whole process:

Recover data from RAW pen drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Insert the pen drive to your PC and run the software. You need to select recovery module to begin data recovery.

1Download the data recovery software and install it to your laptop or PC.
2Connect the raw pen drive to your computer and launch the data recovery software by the way
3Let the program scan the files and you can preview the files during or after the scanning.
4Select the files you want to retrieve or you can highlight all the files, and then start recovering
5Store the restored files to another memory drive available, but never save them to the original disk.

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