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How to restore RAW disk to recover files?

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Download Instruction:

1. Click the download to get Data Recovery Wizard
2. Save then install it on a drive other than the one on which your files were lost
3. Run Data Recovery Wizard, search your drive and preview the files found in the results screen

We have read a lot of threads in forums like "The Windows tells me the disk in drive is not formatted, so I cannot access the disk to open files, what should I do?" The questioner may encounter one of the following situations:
*Invalid media type reading drive
*Abort, Retry, Fail?
*File system is displayed as 'RAW'
*File names contain 'weird' characters
*sector not found
Any of the above information indicates there is wrong parameter in sector, so they are denied to access the RAW disk.

About RAW disk

The term RAW disk refers to the accessing of the data on a hard disk drive or other storage media directly at the individual byte level instead of through its file system as usually. A file system is the hierarchy of directories (also referred to as the directory tree) and files that is used to organize information on a computer. The use of file systems offers some important advantages for computers as compared with just using the HDD as a RAW disk. In particular, it provides a very intuitive means for organizing and finding files. Also, it provides a convenient means of hiding metadata that is of little interest to most users and would also be incomprehensible to most of them.

Try to restore RAW disk

Once encountering RAW disk, some of us may use chkdsk to restore RAW disk, however, it's unavailable under the situation. And the dilemma is that neither we can use format to satisfy the Windows, because by which we will make all files on the RAW disk disappear. What should we do now? According to this problem, the very first thing we should do is to recover files and then perform format to restore RAW disk.

Right Method to Restore RAW Disk

To perform RAW disk restore, we should extract files from the RAW disk first, and at this time data recovery software is needed. Here we use EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for RAW disk restore.

Data Recovery Wizard is professional data recovery software to restore data loss due to format, deletion or recover lost data due to partition loss or damage, software crash, virus infection, unexpected shutdown or other unknown reasons from hardware RAID and storage media such as hard drive, USB drive, SD card, memory card, etc. Choosing it to restore RAW disk is the best solution for data rescue.

Steps to restore RAW disk

1. First download a demo and then install it in your computer. When you launch the software, choose the second mode from "Deleted File Recovery", "Complete Recovery" and "Partition Recovery" on the main window.

Complete Recovery for RAW Disk Restore

2. Select the file types you want to recover.

Select file types

3. Select the RAW drive from the list of logic volumes and click "NEXT"

Choose and Scan RAW Restore

4. Then select the files or directory that you want to restore and press select a directory to save the files.

After above steps, you are able to restore files from RAW disk, save them and then perform format, you will achieve to restore RAW disk.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

Download and try Data Recovery Wizard now. Check the Data Recovery Wizard search results screen and use the preview feature to display the file that you are trying to recover. If you find what you are looking for, then purchase a product activation key to save your recovered files to another drive.

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