Solution for RAW Drive - what is raw drive, how to recover raw files

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Is your drive became RAW like your sd card, flash card, xd card, cf card, external hard drive, hard disk partition, pen drive, USB drive...

Sometimes people call it raw drive, raw file system and the property of the drive often shows 0 bytes while there were important files, photos stored there before and you did not delete them or format the drive and the files just gone.

RAW drive or RAW file system is not really a type of system but presents a problem of your computer. We know often used file system like NTFS, FAT(FAT16, FAT32), or EXT2,3(under Linux OS). So what is RAW file system on earth? Just another system error that makes your partition RAW and you may no longer access files there without some recovery tool.

iCare Data Recovery Software is able to help you retrieve files from RAW drive, RAW partition, RAW file system. It is easy to use without your technical knowledge.

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There are four options provided by iCare Data Recovery Software to restore files and we would like to recommend "Deep Scan Recovery" to recover files from RAW drive. Here a picture that may present the error you encounter when seeing RAW. When checking the property of the drive by right clicking and go to property, you may see the drive has the following RAW.

raw drive

The symbols that are related this problem are the followings:

  • 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

And here is the error message that says your drive is not formatted.

dis not formatted

Did not format the drive? Or already have formatted the disk? Don't worry, iCare Data Recovery Software is able to help you restore files even though you have formatted the disk. But the key point is never use the disk again once you realized you want to restore files from it. This is what all data recovery expert would advice you to perform - keep the scene!

Tutorial: Step by Step Guide to Recover files from RAW file system with "Deep Scan Recovery"

Step One: Download a demo of iCare Data Recovery Software

http://www.icare-recovery.com/download.html

Download and install notice: please do not download and install the exe file on a partition you lost files.

Step Two: Start iCare Data Recovery Software from the desktop icon once you have finished the installation or you might also be able to start it from “Start-->Programs-->iCare Data Recovery Software”
start icare data recovery from desktop icon

Step Three: Select “Deep Scan Recovery”.

Step Four: Select the hard disk which is RAW.

Step Five: Let the software scan all possible files on your selected disk.
searching formatted files

Step Six: When scanning device finished, there would be a list of partitions, be free to click “Show Files”.
formatted partition containing lost data

Step Six: After clicking “show files”, there will be a list of lost files, you can check whether it is your lost files.
preview lost file

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iCare Data Recovery Software Features:

  • Recover files from raw drive, raw partition, or drive space shows 0 bytes.
  • Quick or complete format recovery on FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions.
  • Recover partition files deleted by accident.
  • Partition failure when copying or ghosting to the wrong drive.
  • System crashes and not able to open the partition or files are gone.
  • Data recovery from quick or full formatted usb drive, camera sd card, flash card, memory card, removable drives etc.
  • Recover files & folders formatted.
  • Recover files & folders formatted through disk manager tools, such as Partition Magic.
  • Compressed files recovery, encrypted file recovery supported.
  • Preview your lost files before register the full version.
  • Windows 7 compatible file recovery software.

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