Hard Drive RAW Recovery: Hard Drive RAW Unable to Be Accessed or Recover Anything

Hard Drive RAW and Unable to Be Accessed

When you want to access files on your hard drive, you may receive an error message like "disk in drive is not formatted do you want to format it now". If you got such kind of error message on your hard drive, unfortunately, data stored on the hard drive is inaccessible and you can find the file type of the hard drive is shown as RAW. What does hard drive RAW file system mean? It means the properties of your hard drive has been changed to 0byte and Windows cannot read or recognize the hard drive properly so that you cannot access the data inside the hard drive.

Data Recovery from RAW Hard Drive and Fix RAW Error

You are able to recover data on a RAW hard drive with help of hard drive recovery software. You will need to download and install the software on your computer or laptop with Windows operating system before you can use it since the software is only compatible with Windows OS. Hard drive recovery software is an all-in-one data recovery program which is free, reliable, effective and easy-to-use. This software has been proved to be one of the best data recovery utility except that it cannot be compatible with Mac. You are allowed to fix the RAW error by formatting the hard drive after data recovery.

Download the Following Software to Recover Data

	4Card Recovery - recover the most files from card/usb recover photos video files off memory card, usb flash when raw  How to use: memory card recovery tutorials	First must try recovery software
	iCare Data Recovery Standard powerful hard disk rescue utility How to use: best disk recovery software for step by step guide.	Second must try recovery software
	Stellar Windows Data Recovery Another chance for you to recover data from raw disk How to use: Windows data recovery steps.	Third must try recovery software

What Does It Mean to You When Hard Drive Is Shown as RAW?

When a hard drive becomes RAW, what it means to you is that you may risk losing data from the hard drive. Although you didn’t delete or remove any file from the hard drive, you cannot access the hard drive to use the data inside. Can you restore the RAW hard drive and get back inaccessible files? Yes, you are allowed to restore hard drive from RAW to NTFS or FAT32 and retrieve its data inside on the condition that you never format the hard drive when it is shown as RAW drive.

Hard Drive RAW May Have Different Symptoms

When a hard drive is shown as RAW file system, it can have different symptoms. Therefore, for different users, they may receive different messages when their hard drive becomes RAW.

User1: I was unable to access my hard drive because it has changed its file system to RAW from NTFS. When I tried to access files inside the hard drive, it says "sector not found". What does it mean? How do I read the data on a RAW hard drive?

User2: My 250GB Seagate hard drive is unbootable since it pops up this message: “Invalid media types reading drive. Abort, Retry, Fail?”. I have used this hard drive for several years and it has never had any problem. Can somebody tell me if I can access the hard drive or fix the RAW problem so as to get back lost files from it?

Resources

Convert Hard Drive from RAW to NTFS
Recently I can often see some questions on hard disk drive RAW error. It seems like that many people have run into hard disk RAW problem and need to recover data from RAW drive…
RAW SD Card Data Recovery
SD card RAW is a common problem for almost every SD card user, but it is still difficult and unknown to most users to fix SD card RAW problem…
Change USB from RAW to FAT File System
When a flash drive is shown as RAW drive, different users have different needs. Some users may only want to fix the raw problem because they don’t care about the data inside…
External Hard Drive RAW Data Recovery
What to do when external hard drive partition shows raw file system? RAW recovery software is the best choice to restore data from a raw device…
Samsung Galaxy Memory Card RAW
Like other mobile phone, Samsung Galaxy including Galaxy S/S2/S3/S4, Galaxy Note2, etc is often equipped with a memory card such as SD card, XD card, mini SD card, micro SD card…