RAW Drive Recovery – Data Recovery from RAW Partition / RAW Hard Disk Drive

Solution for Hard Disk Drive RAW Recovery

Question: Is there a solution for hard disk drive raw recovery? My 500GB hard disk drive only shows 150GB on my computer. The file type is showing RAW. My computer is running Windows XP with all updates. There are different types of files inside the disk drive. So my question is how can I get the data off the RAW hard disk drive?

Answer: Since the hard disk drive is showing as a raw drive, you may get the error message that the disk drive is not formatted do you want to format it now when click on the drive to open the files inside. If you get such an error message, you can't format the drive. You can get data off the raw hard disk drive with help of raw drive recovery software.

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What Is RAW Drive Recovery Software?

RAW drive recovery software is an application that can help you restore inaccessible data from a raw hard disk drive. When your hard disk drive becomes raw, you are unable to access the files inside. However, raw drive recovery software is able to help you access the data and extract the lost data off the hard disk drive. If you want to restore lost data successfully, you must ignore all error messages and recover data first. The data may get lost forever if you fix the raw problem first before data recovery. RAW drive recovery software can free restore pictures, videos, music, documents, emails, etc from any storage media that has raw problem.

Possible (but not all) Symptoms of RAW Hard Disk Drive

When your hard drive has raw error, you can fix the raw problem with a few simple mouse clicks sometimes. However, you may have no chance to repair the raw hard drive sometimes. Below are some possible but not all symptoms of raw hard disk drive:

* File system is showing RAW on memory card
* the disk space is displayed as 0 byte
* Disk drive is not formatted do you want to format it now?
* Sector not found message
* I/O error
* File names contain weird characters
* Disk drive is not accessible or readable
* Hard drive can’t be recognized or detected
* Invalid media type reading drive. Abort, Retry, Fail?

Follow the Steps Below to Recover Files from RAW Drive

Step1. Free download the raw drive recovery software and install it properly on your computer. Don’t install it to the hard disk drive where you want to recover files. Run the software and select a proper recovery module.
Step2. Choose a partition or disk which you can’t access. Then the software will start scanning the selected drive.
Step3. After scan, you will see all the found partitions with all files listed there. Click the files you want to recover and preview the files.
Step4. Select all your files to recover and select a storage path to save the recovered files. (Note: the successfully recovered data are suggested to place in another disk as long as it is different from the original one.)

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