How to recover raw disk(s) or partition?

Raw Disk Information

The term raw disk refers to the accessing of the data on a hard drive disk (HDD) or other disk storage device or media directly at the individual byte level instead of through its file system as is usually done. Users cannot access the files on the raw disk and if a disk reads as raw in Windows, possible (but not all) symptoms are:

• Invalid media type reading drive.
  Abort, Retry, Fail?
• File system is displayed as "RAW".
• Windows may ask if you want to format the drive, such as warning "disk not formatted. Do you want to format now?" As the follow picture.
  
• File names contain "weird" characters.
• "Sector not found" messages.

Raw Disk Recovery

In some situations it may be technically possible to recover a raw disk. Format may solve your raw disk problem and let you access the disk again. However, all the important files on the raw disk will be format lost. It may be recoverable, but it will be more success if you recover data from raw disks before format than after. Frankly, you won't want to put your important data in risk.

So, trying to format a raw disk first is generally not advisable. If you are in the predicament to have a raw disk, then most probably at this very time you stop doing any operation to the hard disk to erase or overwrite the data on the raw disk, including formatting it. That is to say, you should protect your original files on the raw disk. By not writing to the disk you are essentially not making things worse.

The best way to recover a raw disk is to install the data recovery software and rescue the raw disk where files are to be recovered and to recover all the data from it to a separate disk, and then once you are sure that you have everything saved, format the problem disk, and copy or re-install the files back onto it for a clean start.

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Download Data Recovery Wizard to recover files from raw disk.

Sep-by-step Instruction to Recover Raw Disk

To recover the files from RAW Disk, please follow these steps:

1. Click the Select "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of the Data Recovery Wizard.

2. You can see the list of logical volumes found on your computer.

3. Select the "RAW" disk or inaccessible logic disk.

4. Click "Next" to begin scanning for files.

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

6. Select a directory and press the "Next" button to save the files.

After these steps, you will successfully recover the Raw Disk and then take it easy to format the disk. The raw trouble has been blown over, and everything is back to normal.

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