How to Recover Data from a RAW Hard Drive 😲 3 Methods
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In this video tutorial, we will discover 3 ways to recover data from a RAW hard drive. 🛠️ How to recover data from a RAW partition: bit.ly/3Q0gia7
Timestamps:
00:16 What is RAW hard drive?
01:05 Quick tip to save your data
01:30 Method #1: Recover data from RAW drive
04:04 Method #2: Recover RAW partition
04:42 Method #3: Format your RAW hard drive
06:15 Conclusions
In today's topic, I'm going to be giving you some different solutions that you can use to recover data from a RAW hard drive or recover files from a RAW partition on your Windows computer.
Before you do anything, you should stop using the drive and refrain from using it as much as possible to avoid further corruption and overriding of the files on the drive.
So that'll just give you the best chance of recovering as much stuff as possible. So that's a quick tip for you right there. Yeah. I would highly advise that you watch this tutorial all the way through, at least watch this first method before you give anything else a chance and that'll again, be the safest for your drive overall.
Method #1
Let's just jump right into the first method of recovery here, which is going to be using file recovery software to pull the data off the drive, even though it's raw now, while technically the fastest way to gain access to your drive and to actually make it usable again is to format the drive. We don't recommend this because it comes with the obvious drawback of erasing your data. So the software we're going to be using today is called Disk Drill. And it's one of the best in the industry, comes standard with all the tools you need to not just recover your files, but backup and further protect them as well.
Steps to recover data from a RAW drive:
1. Download, install, and launch Disk Drill for Windows.
2. Select the RAW storage device on which the deleted files were stored and click "Search for lost data".
3. Use the file format filters on the left to narrow down the scan results until you find the file you’re looking for. Select it to see its preview on the right.
4. Click the checkbox next to the file and click the blue Recover button at the bottom.
5. Specify the recovery folder and click OK.
www.cleverfiles.com/howto/raw...
Method #2
Well, there are a few things that you can try. And the next thing I would try is actually another piece of software called Test Disk. This is free open-source software that while it is simple, shows a lot of promise in this area, specifically inside the software, you have the ability to scan a drive and correct corrupted blocks rebuild a boot sector, and even undelete files. It also allows you to recover data from a RAW drive or perform RAW partition recovery. I have made a video about it before I've also written about it.
How to recover data from a RAW partition:
www.cleverfiles.com/howto/raw...
www.cleverfiles.com/howto/tes...
Method #3
Okay. Now, if all else fails, you still can't get the stubborn thing to return and you can't get your files off, then it's time to look at formatting. This method is suitable both for recovering data from an internal drive and for recovering files from a raw external hard drive. So you've probably heard of formatting before, and yes, it's true. It completely resets the drive and thus deletes all of the data on it, restoring it to its factory state. Essentially. However, one important distinction that I want to make is that when you format a drive, you have the option to select a quick format. And what that means is that it's still going to reset the drive and reset the file system and delete everything. But the data is technically still there. So you would still be able to run, say a data recovery software scan on it and potentially recover things even after formatting.
To format your RAW hard drive:
1. Open file Explorer, and then right, click on your drive
2. Hit format than in the window that comes up, leave all the options as default, except change the file system to exFAT,
3. Make sure you enable the quick format option.
4. Click on start and that'll format the drive.
5. Once you're finished with the format, I highly recommend that you go back to the first method and scan the drive with Disk Drill data recovery software. And that should give you a decent shot at actually pulling data off the drive.
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Hi there, I like your guides. I have an external drive that became unresponsive a few months ago. Do you think your program can help me recover files from a raw external hard drive?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
It depends. If your drive is detected by the system (you can see it in Device Manager/Disk Utility) chances are that Disk Drill can help. Otherwise, it must be a hardware problem and you'd need to take it to a local Data Recovery Center.
Hi!I need help, I have an old mac hard drive, and old mac i can use to try to recover baby pictures. Can Ii use disk drill with Mac?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
What are your thoughts on EaseUS Data Recovery software?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Here you go: www.cleverfiles.com/howto/easeus-data-recovery-alternatives.html
Pretty ironic. I’m using this very software on my RAWA drive and it stopped detecting the drive, so I’m going to have to do a quick format. Would this software be able to retrieve data after a quick format?
@cleverfiles
6 ай бұрын
Every recovery case is unique and depends on thousands of parameters. Please scan your drive to see what can be recovered from it.
Tried method 3 today, lost data. I'm only getting 5 files as opposed to when it was in RAW when I at least got some 159GB of data. Should I just wait for the scan to complete?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
My ext hard drive shows up in device management but not in My Computer to access the files. Do you know why or what I can do?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
Is the the same process for MAC? My external hard disk seems to be corrupted
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Yes, it is a similar process.
I attach my sata drive via a docking bay. It pops up in windows but it's not accessible. Windows drive manager show it as a raw disk but Disk Drill doesn't detect the drive
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
I have a 256 GB microSD card which became RAW outta nowhere. 1. Tried DiskDrill. It found nothing. 2. Chdsk didn't work 3. Tried DiskGenius. Basic MBR is greyed out and Load Current Partition Intellegently option is not coming. Please help 🙏🏻
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Please, contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
This is the closest to a hdd sata right? Can this work for game files. Idk what I'm doing I'll pay you
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
It depends. Please, scan your drive with the free version of Disk Drill to check.
Thank you for the tutorial! TestDisk helped me to restore lost partition for free 🎉
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
Is there any soft we that can offer more than 500mb!?
Using CHKDSK H: /F /R through the command processor is a better option. Before it was only RAW, but now after two runs it already reports the structure, how many files and folders there are, and how much free and occupied space there is. After another run of CHKDSK maybe I'll be able to read the files like it was before and not just read only specific file types.
@alfiecollumbell9740
Жыл бұрын
The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. My drive is raw why am i getting this
@batvanio
Жыл бұрын
@@alfiecollumbell9740 This applies if it is already RAW. In my case it was for the SSD (Intel 530 - 120Gb). A possible reason is that with them, if they are not used for a while, the data is deleted by itself. Somewhere there was information at what and what recording temperatures, how long the recording will remain when the power is turned off. With hard drives, you can keep them turned off for years without losing data, but not with SSDs. I have a hard drive over 10 years old that is still recognized without problems if I don't count some bad sectors because of which I had changed it.
@band1tt
Жыл бұрын
My hard drive just failed, start making some noise and then my pc refused to start up, it wanted to chkdsk for 144 days. Not my C: drive, just a backup drive. I connected it via a usb docking and tried the CHKDSK H: /F /R in administrator mode and only got that chdks doesnt work with RAW drives
@batvanio
Жыл бұрын
@@band1tt I have missed something very important. The test was with my old SSD, not a hard drive. I have never received a RAW on a hard drive. (I've changed about 10 so far in approximately 30 years) The only hard drives where I have lost information are my first one from our first computer picked up used 30-odd years ago (20 Mbyte) and another one, but the problem was actually in the Windows itself which has a very buggy structure. There if there are failures and it is formatted all the failure information is lost and Windows still tries to write to the failed locations. This NFTS structure is big garbage. FAT is much more reliable because it keeps the information for each cluster of the disk including the damaged sections. My longest running drive has worked for about 8yrs without a break and I replaced it simply because it is at times slower, but never has and now doesn't have even one bad sector. Still after a 24 in a day job approx 8yrs its working and not someone expensive but even the opposite. In fact it was one of the cheapest possible he had. Toshiba is Toshiba. Too bad they are no longer available at least in my country.
@shutlap
8 ай бұрын
i have a corrupt sd and am looking for anyone to recommend software or help me recover it, do you know if you could help?
I was in the process of getting my files back after losing everything and I was hopeful. I came from work to notice that the electricity went out and everything is now not working.
I accidentally deleted the partition drive using the clean command of the command prompt. It has very important data, and I want to recover the drive partition along with the data it has. can you please help me with this ?
@cleverfiles
20 күн бұрын
I recommend scanning your drive with Disk Drill to see what can be recovered from it.
What about R-Studio ? Or Autopsy maybe ?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
You can find the list of supported files here: www.cleverfiles.com/help/file-types/ Even if the file type is not listed there, chances are you can still recover it. Please, scan your drive with the free version of Disk Drill to check.
My Windows 11 driver would no longer boot, used another drive with Windows 11 and found the original has a RAW partition. Nothing will save it, nothing. Tried all of the free software, does not even show up in most of them. Sometimes just the first partition of the drive, but not he primary. Cannot covert this to NTFS.
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
Other ways didn't work so I have to use Disk Drill. I have around 30GB in size and I need to have it done right now! Couldn't you guys at least give us a month trial?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
We offer 500MB of free data recovery in the Windows version of Disk Drill.
@KhakiCap
Жыл бұрын
@@cleverfiles I know and that isn't really enough.
Hey, is it possible to convert RAW to NTFS without loosing data?
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
In simple words, you can convert RAW to NTFS without losing data by first doing RAW file recovery using a data recovery software and then formatting the RAW drive to NTFS.
WWhat if the disk hangs the operative system and i cant even open any software ?
@cleverfiles
2 ай бұрын
Try unplugging the drive until the system loads properly and then plug it in. If this won't help you should contact the Data recovery centre: www.cleverfiles.com/salvage/
OK, cool. Now show it recovering the internal drive main "Windows" partiton using the WinRE partition. :-)
I tried this software and was informed that no data was recovered. This was even though my directory utility software could read the drive in question. Although, after a reboot, the OS couldn't see the drive. I'm at my wits end.
@cleverfiles
6 ай бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further asistance.
Is disk drill free or what cause i don't want to wast my time wating
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
We offer a free recovery of up to 500 MB of your data if you use Disk Drill for Windows. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Mac users at this time. You can find more information here: www.cleverfiles.com/help/disk-drill-mac-windows.html We do guarantee the recovery of the files you can fully preview in the free version.
Thanks, I think I'll give Disk Drill a go. Got 9gb (ish) to recover so that's not good.
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@MJ720
Жыл бұрын
@@cleverfiles I did use it to test and I could recover 500mb of photos in the end. I then discovered another software that was free to recover photo files so eventually got all 9gb back with only 10 out of over 1000 photos fully corrupted. Thanks again.
@Literally_Kai
Жыл бұрын
@@MJ720 What software was that?
@MJ720
Жыл бұрын
@@Literally_Kai RePicVid. Free for image files. The premium version is required for video, audio and other types of files.
@Literally_Kai
Жыл бұрын
@@MJ720 thanks ^^
@5:45 "...except change the file system to exFAT". Why exFAT and not NTFS? I have a failed external drive (the file system was NTFS and inexplicably changed itself to RAW). I am looking for a way to recover the entire drive. If all else fails, and I go with the quick format, then why are you recommending exFAT? Thank you.
@cleverfiles
Жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter whether you choose NTFS or exFAT for quick formatting. We recommend exFAT as it is read/write compatible with Windows, OS X and Linux.
ive use all the method but still icant open or recover my files
@cleverfiles
4 ай бұрын
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
Even on a Raw file system, one can run the good old chkdsk /f command. I have multiple instances where all was recovered (that were formerly in NTFS format). I did make a sector by sector disk copy of the drives where this happened, but did not need those copies afterwards. Give it a try and let me know if it worked out for anyone
@bailey125
Жыл бұрын
You can't run chkdsk on RAW file type.
@pc4ad
Жыл бұрын
@@bailey125 I thought so too, but I figured - I can try and fail or loose all data. As I made a backup (sector for sector copy) first, it did work out just fine. It was NTFS - that might have helped. On FAT16/FAT32/ExFat this might not work indeed. But never tried, you won't know for sure!
@bailey125
Жыл бұрын
@@pc4ad How did you get it ro run? cmd just spits out an error and says chkdsk cant be run on RAW.
@pc4ad
Жыл бұрын
@@bailey125 I ran CMD as administrator. Trying to access the drive failed using G: But then running CHKDSK G: /F got it started and running, although it took quite a while before it completed. Of course I can't guarantee success, but this worked out for me. It might depend on the filesystem used and what damaged the drive
@bailey125
Жыл бұрын
@@pc4ad Hmm I also tried that to no success. The file system was originally NTFS I believe. Maybe there's something else wrong with mine.
You're 2 days late man. I lost mine 😭
@code6nightgamer
Жыл бұрын
Sorry mate
Tenorshare o q é?
are you taking the piss £91? how about you help people out with a temporary day or week subscription for unlimited recovery amounts for not a ludicrous price
Disk Drill is worthless - DO NOT USE THIS
@shutlap
8 ай бұрын
i have a corrupt sd and am looking for anyone to recommend software or help me recover it, do you know if you could help?
Nice little video. But he is not interested in your image, but in the method of those who need it. So screenshots, using a step-by-step method, are an effective and good solution. So it's just garbage on the internet.
@shutlap
8 ай бұрын
i have a corrupt sd and am looking for anyone to recommend software or help me recover it, do you know if you could help?
"At least watch the first solution...this is the software I shall be using...." Goodbye.
"letting a drive sit too long" lmfao. so basically having a backup is useless. computers are so weak XD
@nickloss2377
18 күн бұрын
that's how computers and memory works dude. if you don't like it, you can go back to using an abacus.. otherwise get with the times and educate yourself on how computers work. Computers are not magic. they have limitations. they're not going to be able to keep your data for an infinite amount of time..
lol, shiller inside
paid to promote diskdrill lol