What is "RAW" drive partition?
The term RAW disk refers to the accessing of the data on a hard drive disk (HDD) or other disk storage device or media directly at the individual byte level instead of through its file system as is usually done. Users cannot access the files on the RAW disk and if a disk reads as RAW in Windows, possible (but not all) symptoms are:
Invalid media type reading drive.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Abort, Retry, Fail?
File system is displayed as "RAW".
Windows may ask if you want to format the drive, such as warning "disk not formatted. Do you want to format now?" As the follow picture.
File names contain "weird" characters.
"Sector not found" messages.
Recover files from RAW partition
Data Recovery Wizard can recover files from deleted, missing and corrupt partition where file system is severely corrupted or destroyed. Of course, it could recover files from RAW partition or other storage media such as hard drive, floppy disk, zip disk, USB drive or any other storage device whose drive letter is displayed in Windows "My computer".
We can recover files from RAW partition by choosing "Complete Recovery". The other two modes, "Deleted File Recovery" is used to recover deleted files and "Partition Recovery" is used to recover lost files from lost partition. Here are 5 steps for RAW partition recovery:
1.Download a demo version of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and install it on your computer. After launching it, select "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of the Data Recovery Wizard.
