How to format ext4 in Windows 10/8/7?

This post talks about methods to format EXT4/3/2 in Windows, read data in EXT4 partition and create EXT4 partition under Windows. If your computer is dual booting Windows and Linux, you may need to access data on Linux system from Windows. Windows does not support create or format EXT file system nor read EXT data. This guide is focused on methods to deal with operations about EXT4/3/2 file system.

Ext4 files system

• Ext4 file system was introduced in 2008, starting from Linux Kernel 2.6.19. 
• Provide option to disable journaling feature. 
• Backward compatibility is supported. You can mount Ext3 file system as Ext4 without upgrading it. 
• The maximum individual file size 16GB – 16TB. 
• Some new features are included such as multiblock allocation, fast fsck, journal checksum, etc. 

How to format EXT4/3/2 in Windows 10/8/7/XP?

It is easy to format a partition to ext4, ext3 or ext2 with the help of Eassos PartitionGuru, and the formatting speed is fast. Please note formatting wipes all data from the volume; you should make sure important files have been backed up. Let’s see have a look at the formatting steps.

1. Install and launch Eassos PartitionGuru from computer and you can see all partitions on the disk. 
2. Select the partition you want to format and click “Format” button from toolbar. 
3. Choose file system type you need from the Format Partition window and click “Format” button. To format ext4, you should choose Ext4 from the drop-down list. 
   
4. Wait several seconds and the formatting will complete. 

Here is video guide you can follow to format ext4 in Windows:

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MBR VS GPT, which one is better for your SSD?

This page introduces two difference partition plans: MBR and GPT and how to choose partition plans correctly. Besides, this guide touches upon basic knowledge about BOIS and EFI and gives samples about MBR and GPT partition. You can click titles listed below to read corresponding content.

MBR VS GPT

There are two types of partition plans: MBR and GPT on Windows computer, and we’ll talk about both in the following sections.
Computer contains at least one hard drive for data storage, but the physical drive can’t store data directly before partitions are created. Strictly speaking, partition can’t store data if files system is not built. Partition should be formatted to NTFS or FAT files system before storing data.
One physical hard drive can be divided into several partitions (it is OK to have one partition only). How to create multiple partitions? This is when partition table come to use. Partition table defines and stores partition information, locating certain disk space on the beginning area. Operating system gains partition information by way of accessing data in partition table.

How to choose between MBR and GPT?

1. MBR can’t manage disk space that exceeds 2TB and GPT does not have such limitation. If your hard drive is larger than 2TB, please choose GPT.
2. It is recommended computers with traditional BIOS use MBR and EFI-based computer use GPT

BIOS + MBR

If motherboard in your computer is BIOS or UEFI with BIOS mode, MBR partition plan is the correct choice.

UEFI + GPT

Oppositely, if your computer is using UEFI motherboard and enables UEFI mode, then please employ GPT partition scheme.
You might be confused by the conclusion above, as there are many guides online teaching users to install operating system on BIOS+ GPT or UEFI +MBR. My advice is that if you are not technical geek or professional user, you’d better choose BIOS + MBR or UEFI +GPT, as you can benefit:
Better performance in hardware and software, faster speed.
Avoid many potential issues that may occur to installation or running Windows. Professional users can easily fix these problems, but common users can’t get rid of any system errors easily.
Some users may ask whether it is OK to use Legacy BIOS if the motherboard is UEFI. The advice is that for the consideration of performance and speed do not use Legacy BIOS unless hard drive’s capacity is very small. EFI+GPT takes more disk space (100MB or so) than BIOS+MBR, if 100MB matters much on your hard drive, you can choose Legacy BIOS.

How to convert MBT to GPT without data loss?

Step 1: Launch PartitionGuru from your computer. Select hard drive you want to convert and click “Disk” to select “Convert to GUID Partition Table”.

Step 2: Click “Yes” on the message box. Please note that only new operating system can use GPT disk, for example, 32-bit Windows XP does not support GPT disk. Also, only the EFI-based computer can boot from GPT disk. Thus your computer won’t be able to boot normally if it doesn’t support GPT and you need to reinstall Windows.

Step 3: Click “Save All” button and the conversion takes effect.

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Fix "The disk is write protected" error

What is "write protection" on USB disks?

When you try to write data to such disk you'll get error message "The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk".

"I recently bought a new laptop that installs Windows 10. I have four USB flash drives and one of them is now marked ‘write-protected' for no reason, as I didn't do anything to it. I found a solution for windows XP and tried on my own computer. But it didn't remove write protection. I just want to copy files from the USB disk to computer and then reformat it. Can you help me on the write protection removal thing on Windows 10 computer or retrieve data?" 

Causes of USB write protected error

• Read only switch
• The flash drive is full
• Security settings
• The Read-only property
• Virus attack
• Drive is broken or has bad sectors

How to remove write protection from read-only USB drive?

Solution 1: Check the drive for a physical lock

Many USB drive and SD cards have a physical lock switch which can turn on and turn off write protection. Thus you need to examine whether the flash drive enables this lock. Check the left or right edge to find out the switch. If the switch is in the Lock side, just move it to the unlocked position. If this method can't solve the write protection error, please try following solutions.

Solution 2: Use Command Prompt to remove write protection

Read and write attributes of UBS disk can be modified from Windows Command Prompt with the help of a simple command line. You can follow steps here to clear write attribute for flash drive or SD card.

Step 1: Open Command Prompt. Click Start button and enter cmd in searching box. Then right click "cmd.exe" from the searching list and choose "Run as administrator".
Step 2:Type in diskpart and hit Enter.
Step 3:Type the following commands one by one and press Enter key after each command.
      list disk
     select disk #(# is the disk number for your USB drive )
     attributes disk clear readonly

How to recover data from write-protected flash drive?

Step 1:  Launch Eassos Recovery Free and select proper recovery feature. 

Step 2: Choose the USB drive and click "Next" button to start searching for files.

Step 3: Select files you need and click "Recover" button to get files recovered. 

How to recover data when“chkdsk is not available for RAW drives”

This post is going to talk about "chkdsk is not available for RAW drive" error message, describing symptoms and give solutions to this error. If your drive turns to RAW and can't perform chkdsk on it, you can follow solutions here to get it fixed.
Symptoms

“Hi there. I have a Seagate external hard drive that stores lots of files for me, and most of them are kids’ photos and videos. This morning I want to open it and got photos on my phone backed up to the drive. But I failed to open it and received the message “You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it. Do you want to format it now?” Clearly, I shouldn’t format it as I don’t want to lose file on the drive. I was told to perform chkdsk /f, but it says ‘chkdsk is not available for RAW drive’. So could you please help me how to backup external raw drive so as not to lose files? ”

What is “chkdsk is not available for RAW drives”?

CHKDSK, short for check disk, is used in Windows to scan hard drive and find problem. It looks slightly different in different system version, but it works the same in Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10. Despite of its changes, chkdsk is always a useful utility for disk maintenance and troubleshooting.

A disk is card RAW disk is because of its RAW file system. RAW is not an accepted file system in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, etc. RAW means the partition is not ready to be accessed or explored. A disk can turns to RAW due to files system damage. Thus RAW drive brings about data loss issue as it cannot be opened.

If you run chkdsk for RAW drive, you will receive the error message: The type of the file system is RAW. Chkdsk is not available for RAW drives or Convert is not available for RAW drives, chkdsk reports RAW file system.

How to recover data when chkdsk reports RAW?

It has been proved that RAW drive recovery cannot be completed by chkdsk, as file system might be excessively repaired causing files can’t be recovered with original directory structure.

We would like to recommend you free data recovery software – Eassos Recovery Free to recover data from RAW drive or when chkdsk reports RAW. RAW file recovery software is able to retrieve files from corrupted, RAW or reformatted partition.

Step 1: Launch this recovery software and select “Recover Files from Partition” which will list the RAW drive in the partition list.

Step 2: Click the RAW disk you want to recover data and click “Next” button. Then Eassos Recovery starts scanning files from it.

Step 3: After the scan, all recoverable files in the RAW disk will be displayed and wait for recovery. You can preview and filter files so that you can find out files you want quick and judge whether they can be recovered correct. Select files you need and click “Recover” button and you can save files to a location set by yourself.

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How to retrieve permanently deleted data from empty Recycle Bin

Files emptied from Recycle Bin
Living in an age of internet, one of the most challenging and important work of users who use computer will be the data storage together with the data safety. Frequent use of computer and the Internet at home or for various working stuff makes data security the important and necessary task. And then the significance of file copy is increasing and gaining documents with file recovery is getting away from the activities of professionals and individuals. To protect data security from loss, it is very important to offer safeguard by using various solutions. Also, users should value the importance of data back and form the habit of backing up files. Sometimes, users may lose data by dragging files to Recycle Bin, which is going to be data loss situation. So how to retrieve permanently deleted file from empty Recycle Bin?

What’s more, operations such as creating new files, storing data to the partition which is suffering data loss, view files, etc. will lead to data overwriting. After files and folder are deleted, the further mistake step will be deleted them from Recycle Bin The loss of valuable files can cause problem or financial loss. Actually, permanently deleted files or information can be regained by certain methods, and such solution is no longer owned by IT professionals.

Possibility to recover data deleted from Recycle Bin

As common computer users, we are able to retrieve deleted files and folders from Recycle Bin which has been emptied as well as other storage devices due to the remain feature of data. As deleted files aren’t really erased from hard drive sectors by operating system until they are overwritten by new data. When new files created or stored to the sectors that have been taken by deleted files, then lost files can be recovered completely. Thus, users should pay more attention to any actions in order to avoid data overwriting.

Free data recovery software to recover deleted files

So now users can easily get back deleted files from computer hard drive and portable drives using data recovery software which can undelete files. The software can work with all available versions of Windows system. It offers all-sided functions to solve various data loss problems, including file recovery and partition recovery. Users have the options to fix different problems on different storage media.

With proper recovery mode of Eassos Recovery, users are able to retrieve deleted documents, picture, audio, video, archive, email, etc. And the entire recovery process takes a short period of time, sometimes only few minutes, which is hassle free and flawless.

Now the users must get aware about the fact that the recovery of permanently deleted data or data deleted from the Recycle Bin is possible with the help of little recovery software.

Steps to restrieve permanently deleted data from empty Recycle Bin

Step 1: Run Eassos Recovery Free and select "Recover Deleted Files".

Step 2: Select partition where deleted files were stored before they were put into Recycle Bin. Then click "Next" button to search for lost files.

Step 3: Preview and recover files. Select files you want to recover and click "Recover" button to save them to a safe location.

The necessity of choosing advanced pen drive recovery tool

Data storage becomes the basic device of each individual person across the globe, so the storage devices like Pen drive, Thumb drives, USB drives, flash drives and many others are required, so that the data can be saved their with an attitude of feeling safe. But few cases come in the seen that after saving the data in a storage device, not a wise solution without any data recovery tool, which might need to perform the recovery action perfectly without making any data loss.

Why we need a data recovery tool? What happen with the storage device?

The query is certain, so let me explain here how? And why? Sometime we find our data dead and inaccessible at the instant we could not be able to recover the data, but we feel regretted for losing the valuable data if any. The factors that can affect the data presence and accessibility are mentioned below:

• virus infection
• storage media errors
• improper ejection
• logical errors
• Physical damage and many more seen and unseen factors
• Accidental deletion and formatting

To overcome the occurrence, users need to go for some genuine solution from the external source for recovery, with well evaluated methodology of data extraction.

Do we effectively retrieve our data by using Pen Drive data recovery?

Yeah, to get rid of USB behavior Pen Drive Recovery Tool comes in the scene with great effect. It successfully recovers all the lost data from the damage device. The software product itself capable to execute the process after trigger. It supports all types of USB drives, safely recover the encrypted or password protected data with accuracy and proper directory structure of the files and folders. With the purpose of user's satisfaction and easy data extraction with an ease, trial version are made available for the users to check the product capability and features. If find suitable, proceed with the product purchase to unearth your lost or deleted data. Demo will guide you with the recovery steps to be followed.

Pen Drive is the most portable device, which has revolutionize the world with respect to data transfer. Now, it's not a big deal to carry a huge amount of data in the pocket. It's safe and affordable for common people. Pen Drive recovery software such as Eassos Recovery Free is a kind of blessing for those who lost data from their Pen Drive during formatting, accidental deletion, physical damage, mishandling the data or any logical failure

Undelete Software Is Useful Tool In Retrieving Data

Living in the society of science and technology, an increasing number of people depend on computer and Internet in life and work. People tend to store files, significant or insignificant, on computer hard drive or other storage media for security and convenience. However, file loss is one inevitable problem and it happens to all computer users.

In most cases, data loss brings about big trouble or even heavy loss including financial loss. After analysis, we find that the main reason of data loss is file deletion by accident. Many users would like to free up disk space by delete files they take useless for the moment. But, quickly they realized that some important files were deleted together by mistake. So, how to undelete files without help of computer professionals?

Many users don’t know data and file recovery very well, so they usually choose recovery service from related companies. However, such services charges quite high and is not affordable to many users. Besides, such services has the risk of leaking customs’ privacy. Some users are hoping to find another way to undelete files and folder, which is free or affordable and secure. As a matter of fact, such solution is available to common users. Undelete software can help users to restore data and files with little effort. Such software can be downloaded to personal computers and then perform recovery task, and then there is no need to worry about data security.

What users need to note is choosing qualified software which guarantees final result. Undelete file software with poor quality may cause damage for the second time. For such reason, we suggest using Eassos Recovery, as it adopts read-only way of file scanning, which avoid overwriting to original data. And the wizard interface guides users to perform task in order that prevent users’ improper actions.

How to retrieving deleted files on our own? First, download undelete software from downloading center or official site, and then install it to a healthy partition which don’t need to recover data. Then launch it to get the main interface.

There are five recover functions on the interface, then select the fourth module “Recover Deleted Files”. This mode is used to recover deleted files from empty Recycle Bin or removable drive, and recover lost files that are deleted by keys Shift + Delete. Next step is selecting recovery path where deleted files were stored, and then enter the scanning process. File searching may take a couple of minutes according to the scanning space. After file scanning complete, users are able to preview file and know chances of successful recovery and then get files recovered. Note that recovered files shouldn’t be saved to their original location before all deleted files are retrieved successfully.

It seems quite easy to undelete files, but it is still not the best solution to avoid data loss problem. Because file recovery software can’t solve all data loss problem, especially when lost data is overwritten. Thus, all users should attach more importance to file backup, which is strongly advised by IT technicians and review.