Good day to day, friends! Today we will look at the important for many users the issue of repairing a damaged flash drive and restoring the data stored on it. You should agree, the situation is not pleasant when you lose your personal documents without the possibility of their further recovery. These can be valuable photos from family vacations, the results of your creative activity or even the data on which your whole career depends.

Before proceeding directly with restoring a flash drive, let's take a look at what the RAW flash drive partition is.

The term RAW file system is used to refer to a hard drive whose name was not recognized by any of the file system drivers installed in the operating system. If the drive system was identified as RAW, data reading, writing and other operations aimed at working with a damaged drive are impossible. At the same time, the system is able to display the size of the partitions or, when accessing them, offers to format them.

Sometimes the file system of our drives may be damaged for some reason and become unreadable in the Windows operating system and is represented in RAW format. Windows will not be able to open the contents of the device and will prompt you to format the SD card. Otherwise, if you do not confirm this offer, the system will notify you of an error every time you try to view a file.

Do you know how to fix ‘RAW’ error on your SD card, USB or hard drive when the CHKDSK is not working for repairing RAW file system issue on your Windows PC? Here this tutorial article will guide you to resolve the ‘CHKDSK is not available for RAW drive/USB/SD card’ error without losing any data.

The data recovery industry has come a long way since the first undelete tool was introduced by Microsoft back in 1991. Back in the 1990’s, all a data recovery tool would do was tripping the “deleted” flag back into the “undeleted” state, with no safety checks and iffy results at best.