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Thumb Drive Suddenly Became RAW

My thumb drive suddenly became raw, how to fix it?"

Once it happens to you that your thumb drive suddenly changes into raw, please keep calm and be relaxed yourself. It is time restored the files from the raw drive. Hopefully, it is very possible for you to get back your data from the problematic thumb drive via the data recovery software.

What should I do my thumb drive suddenly became raw

It is really a common problem that thumb drives might suddenly become raw and permit no one to access it. In fact, many people had encountered such a question before but few of them know how to recover the data in the raw memory drive. Here is a lively case that lots of thumb drive users are faced with:

Hi! There! I borrowed a USB thumb drive from my deskmate in order to transfer some precious animal photographs. However, the file system of the thumb drive suddenly turned RAW and showed nothing in the disk. There were 0 bytes free and 0 bytes used. I was totally shocked and had no idea what to do then. A moment later, I tried to format the drive, but nothing happened. I was almost out of ideas. How can I recover the files back? What should I do? Can anybody help me out? Thanks in advance!

To resolve this kind of problem, you can turn to the backups for help. If you cannot approach the backups, the best choice for you is to make use of the data recovery software, a program specially designed for memory drive users to restore their lost data from a variety of memory devices.

Recover thumb drive that suddenly changed into raw:

"My thumb drive does not allow me to access it any more; it has changed into a raw one! What can I do to fix this? How will I recover my valuable data inside it? This morning when I open the thumb drive to transfer something, all of a sudden, it asks me to format it before I could use it again. I did but almost in vain. It just repeatedly asked me to format it. Then I checked the properties of the drive, there were 0 bytes available and 0 bytes used. Is there any way for me to restore my drive? Should I format it when the thumb drive has unformatted error and RAW file system?"

Before you restore the raw memory, you should stop using it and keep it in a safe place. And then, you can check if you had any backups of the data inside the memory card, if not, you should turn to the data recovery software for help at once. This program is very easy to apply to, and you are able to retrieve the raw files from the thumb drive in a few minutes provided that you already have a good internet condition.

Recover Data When Thumb Drive Became RAW

A thumb drive will change its file system to RAW due to different reasons. For example, it may show RAW file system if there are bad sectores on the thumb drive, or the drive is infected with virus, etc. Whatever, as long as the thumb drive is not physically damaged, you can use data recovery software to restore lost files before formatting the RAW drive. Here are some procedures that you may need to complete the data recovery task:

Recover data from RAW thumb drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Insert the thumb drive to your computer. Then, run the software and select a recovery software so that the software can scan.

1Download the data recovery program and install it to your computer instead of the raw thumb drive.
2Connect the thumb drive tocomputer furnished with the data recovery software, and launch the program.
3It is obliged for you to select the recovery module as well as the scan mode successively.
4You can start the program to scan the files in the raw drive.
5After the scanning, you are generally allowed to preview the file, and the recover the files you need.

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