Home --> Products --> Features --> Partition Recovery Wizard --> Recover Raw Drive
Newsletter
Awards
How do I recover files from the RAW hard drive?
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Download Instruction:
- 1. Click the download to get Data Recovery Wizard
- 2. Save then install it on a drive other than the one on which your files were lost
- 3. Run Data Recovery Wizard, search your drive and preview the files found in the results screen
If a partition is corrupted in Windows, possible (but not all) symptoms are:
- Invalid media type reading drive.
- 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 picture below.
- File names contain "weird" characters.
- "Sector not found" messages.
To recover the files from RAW drive, please follow this procedure:
1. Download it, install and run free data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition and then select Complete Recovery button on the main window.
2. Select the file types you want to recover and then you can see the list of logical volumes found on your computer.
Tips: If the volume does not have a drive letter, then the volume will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".
3. Select the "RAW" drive or inaccessible logic drive.
4. Click "Next" and the Intelligent Searching module will scan the selected volume automatically.
5. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will list the found partitions. Then please select one or more partitions (you can select 4 partitions at best). You may judge the partitions you want to recover by the file system and the partition size listed.
6. Then, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will build directories to find files.
7. Select the files and click "File Preview" to preview.
8. Select a location and press the "Next" to save the files.
Tips: If you want to wipe the data on a partition completely to protect your privacy, please refer to How to delete and wipe partition?
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
Download and try Data Recovery Wizard now. Check the Data Recovery Wizard search results screen and use the preview feature to display the file that you are trying to recover. If you find what you are looking for, then purchase a product activation key to save your recovered files to another drive.
For better data security, our free backup software - EaseUS Todo Backup will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition in a few minutes.
Related Articles:
- How to recover files from formatted hard drives?
- How to recover lost partitions after repartitioned hard drive?
- How to recover deleted files and folders?
- How to recover files from dynamic disk?
- How to recover 'Ghosted' (or 'Imaged') hard disk drives?
- How to recover lost files or folders?
- How to recover Fdisked drives?
- How to recover deleted or lost partitions?
- How to unformat hard drive with unformat software?
Feedback on this article:
Thanks for visiting EaseUS, please let us know how we can improve this article or make it more useful to you. Should you need technical support please feel free to contact support@partition-tool.com.
