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Windows system gave me the option to format hard drive when it is RAW
We may see such prompt that you need to format the disk in drive E before you can use it. Have you ever encountered it? What would you do if you were told that the hard disk drive is raw? We can not open the hard drive to access its previous contents or save new data on it in that case. But we can try to get the original files back from the raw hard disk drive if they are vital or useful. What's more, it is better to perform raw hard disk drive recovery firstly and then format it.
Case of hard disk drive turning to raw and need to be formatted
I did not know why I am asked to format the disk in drive F on my computer when I double clicked it to open it last night, so I check the disk properties of it. To my surprise, both the used space and free space are 0 bytes, which means that there is nothing saved on it and I can not store any new files on it, either. What's more, it showed that the file system was raw. What I can do if I want to see those previous files again? Can you kindly help me? -Peer from New York
How to retrieve files from the raw hard disk drive which not formatted with data recovery software
We can try to perform files recovery when windows system gave us the option to format hard drive when it is RAW if information on it at the previous time is important or crucial. And then we can format the raw hard disk drive after the data recovery. Here are the steps below to retrieve data needed from the unformatted hard drive with data recovery software:
Recover files from raw hard drive
Preparation: Download the data recovery software to your computer. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Reasons that hard disk shows raw file system error
Some of us may wonder how we can use the unformatted hard disk drive normally, and some of us may want to access information saved on the raw hard disk at the original time again, and some of us may feel strange why the hard disk drive should turn to raw file system. The first and second question we have solved that we can view the previous files by recovering them from the unformatted hard drive and we can use it normally after formatting the raw drive. As for the third question, the answers are various. Here are some of them as follows:
1. The hard disk drive was infected by virus. One of the common reason that the hard disk drive turn to raw file system and need to be formatted before we can use it normally is the virus infection. The hard drive would be infected if there are files looks like suspicious which saved on the hard disk drive and contain harmful matters such as virus and worms. So we should be careful when save data on the hard disk to avoiding storing harmful information on it.
2. There were bad sectors on the hard disk drive. The hard disk drive may become raw file system and show not formatted error if there are bad sectors on it. The reasons of bad sectors are different. For example, there would be bad sectors on the hard disk drive if we use it too long, or other possible reasons. No matter what they are, we should be careful when save or use files on the hard drive.
3. The hard disk drive was not formatted. We need to format the hard drive when we start to use it sometimes. And system would ask us to format the hard disk drive is we have not formatted it. Just as we have talked that we should perform raw hard disk drive data recovery at first and then format it.
4. Other reasons that the hard disk drive turns to raw file system and need to be formatted before we can use it.
File types may be recovered successfully from the raw hard disk drive
We may save different types of files on the hard disk drive, such as pictures, videos, audio files, word documents, excel document, power point files, and so forth. Actually, we can try to perform files recovery on the hard disk drive if we want to retrieve all types of files above when the hard drive becomes raw file system.
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