How to Recover Files from RAW External Hard Drive?

When the file system of external hard drive turns into RAW, the files stored in it becomes inaccessible. Usually, the file system of a hard drive turns RAW when the drive is corrupted severely due to several reasons, and we may encounter the following error messages when we try to access our external hard drive:-

• "External hard drive is not formatted, Do you want to format it now?"
• The drive shows as 0 bytes (both the used space and free space) and when you check it's properties, it shows as RAW
• The Disk Management shows our external hard drive as either unknown file system or RAW file system
• "The drive doesn't contain a recognized file system, and make sure that all the required file system drivers are properly loaded and the Volume is not corrupted" when we try to access the drive through a program or a command line
• The drive is not accessible, The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

The file system of a hard disk drive turns RAW usually when the drive is corrupted due to several reasons. When the file system of external hard drive turns RAW, we are denied from accessing our files and encounter the error messaages mentioned above. Now, the question is how to fix the issue, and recover data from external hard drive that turned into a RAW partition? Keep reading to know how to recover files from RAW external hard drive before fixing RAW hard drive!

Recover Data from RAW External Hard Drive - Remo Hard Drive Recovery

Remo Hard Drive Recovery Tool is an ideal choice to recover RAW external hard drive. The tool recovers data from corrupted, formatted, and reformatted hard disk drives with it's advanced scanning mechanism, as it scans each sector of the drive and extracts the data safely and securely. It takes the image of the disk drive, and retrieves all your files safely with the same file name, and structure.

Remo hard drive recovery tool recognizes and recovers over 300 types of files including videos, pictures, music files, ZIP archives, documents, and many more. Moreover, it can also recover corrupted, deleted, lost, and formatted files from memory cards, Pen drives, USB flash drives, iPods, and other storage devices. Additionally, Remo Recover can also recover files from crashed hard drive and from the hard drive which fails to boot. The tool is availble for free download, get it now, and follow the below given simple procedure to retrieve files from RAW external hard drive.

How to Recover Data from RAW External Hard Drive

• Download, and install the trial edition of Remo Hard Drive Recovery Software on your system
• Now, connect the RAW external hard drive to the system
• Launch the software and select Recover Partitions option from the main screen and select the external hard drive. Then click Scan for the software to begin scanning the drive
• After the scanning is complete, a list of found partitions are displayed. Choose a partition to recover and click Scan button to initiate the recovery process
• Upon the completion of scanning process, a list of recovered files are displayed. You can view the recovered files in Data View, and File Type View
• Prior saving the recovered files, you can preview each of them. Just right click on the file and select Preview option to preview the recovered file
• Finally, Select and save the required files at the location of your choice

Instances where external hard drive becomes RAW:

• Ejecting the external hard drive from the system when transferring the files or formatting the drive results in corruption of the drive that inturn can make the hard drive RAW.
• If the Partition Table of the external hard drive is damaged, then the entire hard drive becomes RAW.
• Damage in the structure of the file system, severe virus infection on the external hard drive, formation of excessive bad sectors on the hard disk,etc. can also make it RAW resulting in inaccessible data.