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RAW Toshiba Portable Hard Drive / Fix RAW Unformatted Error on Toshiba Portable Hard Drive
Maybe you are familiar with such situation that the portable hard drive becomes raw suddenly if you have used it. The feature of the raw portable hard drive is not formatted. System will warn us that disk is not formatted and we can not open to use it before format that drive. One of the things that we concern most is that data saved on the portable hard drive before. How can we access them normally? Actually, we can retrieve them at first and then we can format the raw portable drive.
Case of Toshiba portable hard drive becoming raw
My sister bought me a Toshiba portable hard drive on my last birthday, and it has brought much convenience and fun to my life. What an excellent gift. But it shows raw file system now and I don't know why. What I know is that the raw is a system error and now I can not use the portable hard drive normally. I want to access files which I saved on it at the previous time at present. Anyone could kindly help me and tell me what should I do to view those inaccessible contents? -Mi from Utah
How to retrieve information form the raw portable hard drive with the help of data recovery software
We have the ability to restore files and folders form the raw portable hard drive before format it to access them again. But we need some help. Actually, we can use the data recovery software to retrieve what we need from the portable hard drive not formatted. The following steps will guide us how to perform:
Recover data from raw external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the external hard disk drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Why data recovery tool could restore those inaccessible data
There is nothing we can do to a raw portable hard drive but to format the external hard disk drive. Raw is one of the file systems like FAT, FAT32, NTFS and so forth. The difference between raw file system and others is that raw is a system error and can not be used normally, but others can be and shows distinct features. The way to fix the raw file system error is to format the portable hard drive. But it seems not that good if there are precious and valuable files saved on it. They would be lost after the formatting. As a matter of fact, as we have known, we can ask the data recovery software for help. It can assist us get what we need back form the raw portable hard drive.
Many people wonder why those inaccessible files and folders could be retrieved by data recovery tool when it is raw and can not be opened. The reason is simple, in fact. Those files and folders are still saved on the portable hard drive though it can not be opened before being formatted, and we just can nor\t view them. Data recovery program can scan them and display them in the list after the scan. What’s more, we can preview them and pick up the wanted to recover.
What’s more, except from the portable hard drive raw problem. Data recovery tool is helpful at other cases. It means that data recovery software can restore files form the portable hard drive which are lost due to other reasons, such as
1. Accidental deletion and formatting.
2. Virus attacks.
3. System corruption.
4. Other logical data corruption.
File types that could be restored by data recovery software
Some people save pictures on the portable hard drive, maybe other people store videos on the portable hard drive, or save various types of files on it. so they need to get different types of files back when the portable hard drive shows raw problem. Then can data recovery tool restore all of them? The answer is definitely yes. No matter which kind of file type we stored on the portable hard drive, we can ask the data restoration program for help when it is unformatted. For example, photos, videos, audio files, word documents, movies, PPT, software, and so on.
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