In some cases, when you connect an external hard drive to your computer, Windows may start sending messages to the user that the HDD is not formatted and offer to format drive after reading the error information. In this situation, the user loses all access to the damaged drive, in addition to being able to see its size, and, of course, many question arises, "Is it possible to resolve the issue without losing data?"

The disk, for some reason acquiring the status of RAW, is quite in the world of modern technologies and, fortunately, we have a solution for this issue. You should not panic in advance with the thought “I have a broken USB drive, on which an important presentation prepared for speaking at a corporation meeting had been stored.” The solution for that question is very simple. You can not only restore important information from your drive, but also reanimate it without any loss.

In the life of most computer users, there must have been both mechanical and logical problems with hard drives. Today we will look at such an error as RAW markup.

A RAW error is a special Windows file system markup that the operating system assigns to the drive in case none of the drivers installed on the PC could recognize the current disk system. Below we give instructions for solving the problem, but first we will analyze the main symptoms of a RAW external hard drive error, so that you can be sure about what happened to it.

RAW file system issue No modern computer can function without a disk or a data storage. Sometimes storage media can suffer an unexpected crash which will result in logical partition errors and making its file system to become a RAW one. Tis type of filesystem is unreadable in Windows and therefore you will lose access to all the data on the media. The only way to recover such a disk is to perform a full format with the correction of RAW file system on FAT32, NTFS or another system with which the operating system can interact. But what about the data that in no case can not be lost?

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.

Typically, formatting is one of the main working decisions for restoring any disk with the RAW file system. Sometimes it happens that users can not resolve this issue using the method described above because Windows cannot complete the formatting operation for any reason— “Windows was unable to complete the format”

An unreadable Windows RAW file system can for some reason appear on different media. For example, on the hard disk, USB-drive and SD-card. Today we look at the situation with the SD card.

SSD drive recovery is a hot topic. There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding SSD drives in general. Users become confused, not knowing whether they’ll be able to recover files from an SSD drive. We’ll try to address these concerns and clear the confusion. But first let’s look at how different SSD drives are compared to traditional mechanical storage devices.