How to format raw external hard drive? Here we offer you the best solutions to format the raw drive without data loss.
Fortunately the answer is yes, formatting is the easiest solution to fix the raw drive error. But this process will clean up all your data, so if you don’t want to lose data, you need to recover them first.
Here we use iCare Data Recovery, a effective and safe data recovery program. It can best protect your data.
Step1: Free download iCare Data Recovery.
Step2: Enter “Deep Scan Recovery” or “raw drive recovery” module, select your raw drive to scan.
Recover data from raw drive without data loss
Step3: Select needed data and save to another drive.
Recover data from raw drive without data loss
Then you can format the raw external hard drive with the quick format tool or Disk Management.
Format the raw external hard drive
Or you can also try a more effective solution: CMD command prompt.
Video - format raw disk ntfs
First of all, you need to know the process to repair raw drive with command prompt will delete all your data on the drive, make sure you have recovered them.
Step1: Run CMD.
Repair raw to ntfs with CMD
Step2: Type“format l: /fs:ntfs”(l is the drive letter of your raw hard drive)
Repair raw to ntfs with CMD
1.Command prompt will format your data on the device, please recover the data first.
2.If you have formatted your device, you can also try iCare Data Recovery to recover your formatted data.
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