How to Recover Data from Raw Hard Drive

• Can I Recover Data from Raw external hard drive?
• Perform Raw Hard Drive Data Recovery in 3 Steps

Part 1Can I Recover Data from Raw external hard drive?

Raw hard drive usually means that there is no file system on that hard drive. This happens mostly because of system error, improper operation or virus attack. Normally when we find the following symptoms using the computer, we can tell that a raw hard drive error is probably occuring.

• The file system is raw
• The file names contain unrecognised characters and can`t be opened
• The "This drive in disk is not formatted. Do you want to format now?" or "You need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it" alert appears

Formatting it can usually solve the problem. But hard drive formatting may take all data on that hard drive off. This is the reason why you need a Raw hard drive data recovery program, which will bring back all data from your Raw disk.

Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac is the best option for you to recover data from Raw hard drive. It helps you to recover many file types from your Raw hard drive, including pictures, audio files, videos, documents and more. With its user-friendly interface and safe recovery methods, you just need to connect Raw hard drive with your computer and launch the program to scan it.

You can get a trial version of this program to recover data from Raw hard drive now.

Part 2Perform Raw Hard Drive Data Recovery in 3 Steps

Now let’s process the recovery with Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows computer. Mac users can also get the Mac version of this program.

Step 1. Select file type you want to recover

To recover data from RAW hard drive, you can select a specific file type or click "All File Types" to start.

Step 2. Scan your Raw hard drive to search for files on it

Select the Raw hard drive and click "Start" to begin scanning it.

You can go to deep scan if quick scan can't get your lost data. The deep scan will deeply search more files.

Step 3. Recover data from Raw hard drive

When the scan is over, all recoverable files on your Raw hard drive will be displayed in program window.

You just need to select them and click "Recover" to save them on your computer. And it`s recommended to save the recovered files to other disk to avoid data being overwritten.

Note: “Raw recovery” does not show original file names and paths compared to other recovery options.