Have you ever got a notice that “The drive is not formatted,
do you want to format it now?” Actually it always happens when the
drive is not readable or accessible. This drive is called raw drive or raw file system. Files there are gone after drive becomes raw. Is it possible to recover data from raw file system?
What is raw drive?
Here’s an explanation for reference: the disk you are trying
to access either hasn't been prepared for use with your OS, or it has been
damaged and the data can no longer be read. Every floppy and hard
disk needs to be formatted to prepare the media for use with a particular file
system.
Actually, raw drive is not a system type but a computer
problem. It’s a system error which makes you away from data there if no
recovery tools involved. It always present below symbols:
- File
system is RAW
- RAW
drive
- Used
space 0 bytes
- Drive is raw and not formatted, do you want to format it now? - error message
How to recover data from raw drive?
When you face this message “The drive is not formatted, do
you want to format it now?”, there’s one thing you have to do immediately-- stop
using the device that shows not formatted error. No matter it is disk drive,
camera sd card, flash card, CF card, you can get help from some recovery tools,
like iCare Data Recovery Standard.
After recovering files successfully, you
can format the device and fix the not formatted error.
And also, you can try free data
recovery software firstly which helps you to verify if lost files can be
located and recovered.
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