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.
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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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