“Hi everyone, I cannot access my data in my NTFS drive which became RAW on my computer and displayed a warning notice that 'you need to format the disk before you can use it'. I have saved all my business and official data in it. How do I recover data from RAW NTFS drive on Windows computer? Please help me... It’s urgent!!!!”
NTFS drive is used to save data and keep track of all directories to access particular file. Actually RAW partition is drive that is present in your computer which is not recognized by user on operating system due to drive damage. The data present in it becomes inaccessible leading to loss of important files. In such instant, it is difficult to work on RAW NTFS drive. There are some more error which makes NTFS drive RAW, such as:
“There was an error accessing drive X: The disk is not formatted”
“The disk in drive X: is not formatted”
“The Partition X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?”
“The type of the file system is RAW”
“CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives”
Scenarios that leads to various RAW NTFS drive:
- Improper installation of operating system may lead to RAW NTFS drive
- Virus infection on computer hard drive is the main cause for RAW partition
- Anomalously shutting down your system while running some other application in background can result in RAW NTFS
- Sometimes incorrect data operation or abrupt removal of external storage device corrupts NTFS drive and make it RAW
User can easily restore inaccessible or lost data from RAW NTFS partition on Windows system by using any data recovery software, one such is Yodot Hard Drive Recovery.
Utility to recover RAW NTFS drive:
Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software can recover data from RAW NTFS drive on Windows computer with ease. It can retrieve data from computer hard drives having ATA, IDE, PATA, SATA, SCSI and other interfaces. This application can rescue data from memory cards, FireWire drives, iPod, USB flash drives, SSD and other external storage drives. It is added with read only recovery algorithms that safely retrieve RAW NTFS partition in just few clicks. With highly improved graphical interface, even a nnon technical user can recover files from RAW NTFS partition in short span of time. It also supports file recovery from formatted drives with FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExFAT and ReFS file systems. This tool is suitable to
recover data from RAW file system on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 OS based computers.
Steps to restore data from RAW NTFS partition:
- Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool on Windows computer and install it
- Now launch the utility and your main screen will pop up with two options like ‘Partition Recovery’ and ‘Formatted / Reformatted Recovery’
- In that select required option and move on to next window
- Now select RAW NTFS drive which has to be retrieved and choose the file types to be retrieved from it and start with scanning process
- After the completion of scanning process, you can view restored files from partition in 'Data View' or 'File Type View'
- Finally use 'Save Recovery Session' option to save scanning information that can be used to resume scanning process after buying the software
- Save recovered files on desired destination location, but not on same partition where recovery process was taken place
Notable Points:
- Take back up of vital files on safe external drive to prevent data loss from raw NTFS drive
- Use an safe anti-virus application to keep hard drive safe and secure from harmful viruses/malware
- Avoid forceful shutdown of system while some applications are still running in background
