What to Do If External Drive Became RAW

Let’s check the problem below and learn some information of external drive.

“Hi! There! I have a problem. I used the external drive of my friend to watch a movie on my laptop. It worked well. However, when my friend got it back, it didn’t work on his computer. And the computer message says his drive need to format. He also has a lot of stuff on the drive. So I come here to ask you for help. Is there another way instead of formatting? Now the drive is RAW and cannot work on my laptop, too. Any suggestion could be appreciated.”

RAW problems always annoy people. It can be caused by many reasons, the physical damage of the drive, the virus or spyware attack or even the rude behavior of inserting the drive to a computer. It is truly a great thread to the safety of data on the drive.

How to Solve the Problem?

As we mentioned above, we may always meet the problem. But, as a problem appears, we should make our efforts to resolve it. In fact, this answer is unexpectedly simple. You just need accomplish two things.

1. A recovery program?

At first, you should know whether the data there is needed. In your case, your friend absolutely needs the data on his drive. So, what he should do next is to restore his data from the raw drive, to restore his data by using file recovery software. He can use uFlysoft Data Recovery. Search on the Google also can help him make a good decision.

2. Format it.

After recovering all your data on the RAW drive, you are supposed to format it. Formatting can help it to return it to its original state. As a result, you can freely use it again.

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1. Build a backup for the data is necessary after data recovery is finished.

2. Remember do not save the recovered data on the path which your lost data were stored before.