Don't worry about that, that is a common problem when the drive turns to raw, it often happens on SD card, USB flash drive, and other removable storage device. And this is not a irreversible error. Now I will show you some ways to recover the raw SD card.

How to Format Raw SD Card Using CMD

CMD, command prompt of windows system, can act many command line on your system, formatting is one of them. When your SD card is recognized as raw drive, you are not able to format the raw drive by a simple right-click. So , in this situation, CMD can do you a favor. Follow the instructions here to format the raw SD card.

Step1: Run CMD.

Format raw sd card using CMD

Step2: Type"format K: /fs:fat32"(K is the drive letter of the corrupted raw SD card)

Can You Force Format SD Card

If your SD card turns to raw, it will be needed to force format your card, because the raw file system can not be recognized by windows system and the SD card will shown as inaccessible. It will also pops out the message that ask you to format it before you can use it every time. And you can not right click it and choose "format" option to solve this problem. So you need to force format it.

Sd card won’t format problem

Unable to Format SD Card

Sometimes your SD card becomes raw because it is corrupted, and it is also not able to be formatted by windows system. When you try to format it, your computer will reports that"Failed to format the device". If so, you will need a professional format tool to help you.

Windows can't format the sd card

Format Raw SD Card Windows 10/8/7vista/xp

For windows users, CMD is a good way to force format your SD card. You can also try system built-in format option, follow the steps to force format your SD card.

Step1: Go to "My Computer" and find your SD memory card.

Step2: Right-click the SD card, and click "Format" action, choose "quick format" as format type, if you want to erase all the data on it, you can also choose full format.

Step3: Click "OK" to start the format process.

RAW SD Card Formatter – Format Tool

If your windows system fails to format your SD card, and even CMD is not able to format your SD card, you still have ways to perform the formatting on your SD card. How to make it? Try a professional format tool.

This is a free download link: https://www.icareall.com/download/formatter.exe

You can download it and use it to format it easily.

raw sd card formatter--format tool

Recover Data from Raw SD Card

As we all know, formatting or reset is a whole deletion of your device, it will erase all your data on your SD card, if you have some important data on the SD card, you need to think twice before you format your SD card. Do you know how to protect your data on the SD card? Make a backup or recover them before formatting.

If you didn’t make a backup, you can still make it with a data recovery tool. You can choose a reliable program like iCare Data Recovery.It is a safe data recovery program which can help you retrieve your data from the corrupted or raw SD card.

Instructions of recovering data from raw SD card won't format

Step1: Run iCare Data Recovery program on your computer.

Step1 to recover the data on the sd card

Step2: Scan your SD card.

Step2 to recover the data on the sd card

Step3: Preview the found data after scanning, choose those you needed to recover.

Step3 to recover the data on the sd card

Step4: Save them to another place.

After you recover your data on the SD card, you can repair the raw SD card by performing a formatting on your SD card.

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