How to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS without data loss?

"Recently I was facing some problem with power failure, so I added a new hard drive to my system. The problem is that the new hard drive is working perfectly but the file system shows either blank or designated "RAW" rather than NTFS in the primary partition on the original hard drive. And the secondary partition on the original hard drive shows unformatted. Is there any way to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS without formatting it and losing all my data? Is there any way to resolve this problem?"

This is a common problem in data recovery forum. The RAW drive is a hard drive partition which has not been formatted with the file system neither FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 nor NTFS/NTFS5. The RAW drive can be caused by a number of reasons such as virus infection, format failure, accidentally shut down operating system, power outages, etc. When you access the RAW drive, you will get an error message like "The disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?". In this situation, if we click "No", the drive cannot be accessed. On the contrary, if we click "Yes", we will lose all of the files stored on this drive.

How to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS? Here is a solution to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS without data loss: recover files from RAW drive with data recovery software, and then format the hard drive to NTFS file system. This will ensure the safety of the data on your RAW drive.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a powerful data recovery software, it can recover deleted files, recover files from raw drive, recover files from formatted drive, recover files from lost or deleted drive, etc.

Convert/Change RAW file system to NTFS

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard has three recovery modules. Its "Complete Recovery" module is used to recover files from raw drive. The following is step-by-step instructions to convert/change RAW file system to NTFS without data loss.

1. First please download a demo version of it and install it in your PC. Then launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

2. Select the file types you want to recover. Tick 'Search all lost files automatically' to find all lost file types. Tick 'Ignore bad sectors' to skip bad sectors when scanning.

3. You can see the list of logical drives found on your computer and select the "RAW" drive or inaccessible logical drive.

4. Click "Next" to start intelligent search.

5. After intelligent search is completed, you will see one or more partitions; choose the highest suggestion partition (or the one which matches your partition in size and type) to recover files from and click "NEXT" to recover. You can choose 4 partitions here at most.

6. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard will build directories to find files.

7. Select the files or directory that you want to recover and press the "Next" button to save recovered files.

8. After recovering files from RAW drive successfully, you can format the raw drive to NTFS file system and then access the raw drive as normal. Now you have converted/changed RAW file system to NTFS.

 

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