Raw recovery - How to recover data from RAW file system?

Have you ever failed to recover the corrupted data? In this situation, maybe you should have a try on raw recovery.

When you try to access data from a partition or storage media, you may see the prompt that "The disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?". In this occasion, even if we do not delete or format them, our important files are gone. Where are the files? Can we get them back? Before we solve the problem, let's see what is raw file system in advance.

What is raw file system?

As we know, FAT and NTFS/NTFS5 are the regular file system of Windows. Raw file system is an error file system which causes a lot of problems and makes files inaccessible.When the hard drive is shown as Raw, possible symptoms are:

File system is displayed as "RAW".
File names contain "weird" characters.
When you access files, it will warn "Sector not found".
You will be reminded of "Disk is not formatted. do you want to format now?"

Raw file recovery option in following cases:

Raw recovery doesn't mean recovering partition or file system itself. It means recovering files from raw partition or raw file system. In these two cases, you can consider to choose the raw recovery:

File system data structures of a drive have suffered serious corruption or overwriting and data recovery software cannot scan such drives.
Recently deleted files are not recovered because of severe fragmentation, which is a common problem in FAT file system drives.

How to recover data from raw file system?

Data recovery for Mac is a professional raw data recovery software which can effectively and safely perform raw file recovery to recover lost files from raw file system.

1. Install the program on you computer first. In order to avoid overwriting original data, I strongly recommend you to install it on different partition with your lost data partition. Then choose the "Raw Recovery" mode.

Raw recovery launching interface

2. The partition of your computer and media storage drive will be scanned and listed in the panel. Choose the one where your lost file located. Then click "Scan" to scan the lost files.

Scan files from raw partition

Note: Click the "Filter Options" button, it will pop up a dialogue where you can set the scanning condition.

Scanning condition

3. The results for raw recovery will be listed according to the file formats. Select the target data and click "Recover" to proceed to destination selection interface.

Recover data by raw recovery

Note: We suggest you select another directory which is different from the source one, in case it would eventually overwrite the source data.

4. When you leave the scanning results interface, a prompt will remind you whether you'd like to save the scanning results. If you do so, it is very convenient for you to recover other data at anytime without re-scanning.

Save scanning results

Note: The scanning results are saved in RES format. In the launching interface, you can import the RES files by choosing "Resume Recovery" option.

If you can not judge whether your lost files should take "Raw Recovery", you can try "Lost File Recovery" in advance because this mode's scanning time only takes you several minutes.

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