External Hard-Drive became RAW

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17, March 2017: File system is the main component of any operating system like Microsoft Windows. It is responsible for managing files and directories on your hard drive. It is very prone to failure and it may render all of your hard drive partitions invisible and inaccessible. At the same time, your computer may become unbootable and all the stored data becomes inaccessible. When a it got damaged, the file and drive becomes RAW. In such cases, you need to go for Partition Recovery solutions to retrieve missing, lost or inaccessible hard drive partitions and stored data.

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The RAW drive is a hard drive partition, which has not been formatted with the NT file system neither FAT (File Allocation Table) nor NTFS (New Technology File System). It can be caused by a number of reasons such as virus infection, format failure, improper system shut down, power outages, etc. In these processes the file system may corrupted and the file system may becomes RAW that cannot be recognized by Windows. So you cannot store data on it or even access it.

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Use "Full Scan" to restore deleted files from raw file system Partition which can not be found with "undelete" and "unformat" and "recover partition" from raw file system Partition after showing an error, display as raw file system, unformatted, unknown partition, unpartitioned, needs to be formatted.Support MS Office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) types (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, pst, etc.), photos (JPG, PNG, ICON, TIF, BMP, RAF, CR2, etc.), videos and audios (MPG, MP4, MP3, MTS, M2TS, 3GP, AVI, MOV, RM, RMVB, etc.), compressed files (rar, zip, etc.), PE files (exe, dll, lib, etc.) and so on.

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Sometimes your drive displaying as "raw" file system, you want to covert raw to ntfs or fat32 or exfat paritition.But you worry about your data?with Aidfile, do not worry, you may use Aidfile recover your data to a free disk, then format raw file system to NTFS .

Do you need to convert RAW to NTFS files in order to complete the format of a partition when the disk asks you to do?In fact, RAW is not the right file system, which you may have NTFS before but it has been changed to RAW without your conscious and you just did not know how to handle this and are looking for some tool which can convert RAW to NTFS and hope to access files in the partition.

External hard disk drives are usually available as pre-assembled integrated products, but may be also assembled by combining an external enclosure (with USB or other interface) with a separately purchased drive. They are available in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch sizes; 2.5-inch variants are typically called portable external drives, while 3.5-inch variants are referred to as desktop external drives. "Portable" drives are packaged in smaller and lighter enclosures than the "desktop" drives; additionally, "portable" drives use power provided by the USB connection, while "desktop" drives require external power bricks.