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RAW Portable Hard Drive by Mistake / Portable Hard Drive Needs to Be Formatted
Have you ever let your portable hard drive become raw due to some reasons, such as virus infection? The portable hard drive can not be opened if turn to raw, not to mention save new data on it or access files which are saved on it previously. So it is a terrible thing to meet a raw portable hard drive. We can use the raw portable hard drive normally to store new information after format it. But the original files would be lost at that time. But we can restore those needed files at first..
Case of portable hard drive becoming raw
I have no idea why my portable hard drive can not be opened and shows raw file system when I check its disk properties. One of my classmates tells me that it may because the portable hard drive is infected by virus. Maybe she is right. What I want to know is that how can I access data saved on the portable hard drive previously. Those files are very important and useful for both my study and life. Anyone could kindly tell me how can I restore them? Can I format the portable hard drive to convert RAW to NTFS or FAT32? -Allan from New York
How to retrieve information from the raw portable hard drive with data recovery software
We have the ability to retrieve those files and folders saved on the portable hard drive at the previous time when the external hard drive shows unformatted error and turns to raw. What we need is data recovery software, which could help us get information what we want back quickly and safely. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform:
Recover data from portable hard drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the portable hard drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Reason that portable hard drive turns to raw
The portable hard drive turns to raw must due to some certain reasons nut not suddenly. Some people fell strange is just because they have no idea what the reason is. It is necessary to make it clear that what the reason is, as we can avoid some raw portable hard drive situations after knowing the reason. There will be precaution, in other words. As a matter of fact, here are some possible reasons as follows:
1. Virus attacks. The portable hard drive may become raw after being infected by virus and worms. It needs to be formatted before we can use it, and system will ask us format it or not now at that time. The portable hard drive is infected may because there are harmful files which contain virus and worms stored on the portable hard drive itself or there are suspicious data where the virus hidden saved on the computer and attack the portable hard drive when they are connected.
2. System error. Raw is one kind of file system that detected by the computer operating system. If there is something goes wrong on the computer operating system, the file system of portable hard drive will not able to be detected correctly by the system. So the system error is one of reasons that cause the raw portable hard drive.
3. Bad sectors. The file system of portable hard drive may go wrong and become raw if there are bad sectors on the portable hard drive. But we can not start to chkdsk when the portable hard drive is raw file system. What we can do is to restore the useful files from the raw portable hard drive and then format it to make it usable again.
4. Other possible reasons that cause the portable hard drive turn to raw.
File types that could be restored by data recovery tool
Different people may store different types of files on the portable hard drive for their own needs. So here is the question that which types of files could be retrieved by data recovery tool when the portable hard drive is raw file system. Is it photo? Or is it video? Actually, the data restoration program is so powerful that could get all kinds of files back form the unformatted portable hard drive, such as pictures, videos, audio files, word documents, e-mails, movies, songs, excel documents, and so forth.
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