How do I recover files from the RAW hard drive?

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. Run free data recovery software - EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition and then select Complete Recovery button on the main window.

2. 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?

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