How to Recover Data from a RAW Hard Drive 😲 3 Methods

[@ZeusGhostz]

Disk Drill Saved my Life, Thanks man!

[@thecapone45]

Pretty ironic. I’m using this very software on my RAWA drive and it stopped detecting the drive, so I’m going to have to do a quick format. Would this software be able to retrieve data after a quick format?

[@cleverfiles]

Every recovery case is unique and depends on thousands of parameters. Please scan your drive to see what can be recovered from it.

[@Progressive.G]

What are your thoughts on EaseUS Data Recovery software?

[@cleverfiles]

Here you go: www.cleverfiles.com/howto/easeus-data-recovery-alternatives.html

[@bradleydawson565]

Hi there, I like your guides. I have an external drive that became unresponsive a few months ago. Do you think your program can help me recover files from a raw external hard drive?

[@cleverfiles]

It depends. If your drive is detected by the system (you can see it in Device Manager/Disk Utility) chances are that Disk Drill can help. Otherwise, it must be a hardware problem and you'd need to take it to a local Data Recovery Center.

[@magicsounds1]

I have a drive with 23 partitions in raw with write protection how would I go about getting the files can the drive be converted from raw to ntsf the drive can be seen in windows

[@cleverfiles]

Ensure the drive is properly connected and save recovered data to a different storage device. Once the data is backed up, you can convert the RAW partitions to NTFS using Disk Management or Command Prompt in Windows. Write protection must be disabled, either physically or via software, to format the drive. I also recommend scanning the drive with Disk Drill to see what files can be recovered from it.

[@magicsounds1]

@@cleverfiles how do you know which partitions to delete which there are 23

[@magicsounds1]

@@cleverfiles I can't figure out how to remove the write protection I have tried everything how can I do this

[@band1tt]

I attach my sata drive via a docking bay. It pops up in windows but it's not accessible. Windows drive manager show it as a raw disk but Disk Drill doesn't detect the drive

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@TORDesign]

Thanks Andrew - running disk drill now on y RAW drive, but question: When I look at the drive in disk manager it shows it has recovery partitions - how do we use these to recover the drive?

[@cleverfiles]

If the drive is RAW, the file system may be corrupted, and the recovery partition might not work. Continue using Disk Drill to recover your data, and use file system repair tool like CHKDSK to potentially fix the drive. If these methods fail, consider reaching out to the drive's manufacturer for specific recovery instructions. Always back up recovered data to a safe location.

[@Bonjourdimanche]

Is the the same process for MAC? My external hard disk seems to be corrupted

[@cleverfiles]

Yes, it is a similar process.

[@lousuth1968]

My ext hard drive shows up in device management but not in My Computer to access the files. Do you know why or what I can do?

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@elaynevera1596]

Hi!I need help, I have an old mac hard drive, and old mac i can use to try to recover baby pictures. Can Ii use disk drill with Mac?

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@rahulsinghrawat3353]

It shows 27 hours remaining for a full scan. Do you think it's going to work?

[@cleverfiles]

The scan duration depends on many factors, including your drive size and health, as well as your computer's performance. If your hard drive has a hardware malfunction, including bad sectors, then this might be the reason Disk Drill is taking longer than expected to complete the scan.

[@tasneem377]

Is disk drill free or what cause i don't want to wast my time wating

[@cleverfiles]

We offer a free recovery of up to 500 MB of your data if you use Disk Drill for Windows. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Mac users at this time. You can find more information here: www.cleverfiles.com/help/disk-drill-mac-windows.html We do guarantee the recovery of the files you can fully preview in the free version.

[@KhakiCap]

Other ways didn't work so I have to use Disk Drill. I have around 30GB in size and I need to have it done right now! Couldn't you guys at least give us a month trial?

[@cleverfiles]

We offer 500MB of free data recovery in the Windows version of Disk Drill.

[@KhakiCap]

@@cleverfiles I know and that isn't really enough.

[@prashantsaini6372]

I accidentally deleted the partition drive using the clean command of the command prompt. It has very important data, and I want to recover the drive partition along with the data it has. can you please help me with this ?

[@cleverfiles]

I recommend scanning your drive with Disk Drill to see what can be recovered from it.

[@FrozenSkyes1]

I was in the process of getting my files back after losing everything and I was hopeful. I came from work to notice that the electricity went out and everything is now not working.

[@batvanio]

Using CHKDSK H: /F /R through the command processor is a better option. Before it was only RAW, but now after two runs it already reports the structure, how many files and folders there are, and how much free and occupied space there is. After another run of CHKDSK maybe I'll be able to read the files like it was before and not just read only specific file types.

[@alfiecollumbell9740]

The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. My drive is raw why am i getting this

[@batvanio]

@@alfiecollumbell9740 This applies if it is already RAW. In my case it was for the SSD (Intel 530 - 120Gb). A possible reason is that with them, if they are not used for a while, the data is deleted by itself. Somewhere there was information at what and what recording temperatures, how long the recording will remain when the power is turned off. With hard drives, you can keep them turned off for years without losing data, but not with SSDs. I have a hard drive over 10 years old that is still recognized without problems if I don't count some bad sectors because of which I had changed it.

[@band1tt]

My hard drive just failed, start making some noise and then my pc refused to start up, it wanted to chkdsk for 144 days. Not my C: drive, just a backup drive. I connected it via a usb docking and tried the CHKDSK H: /F /R in administrator mode and only got that chdks doesnt work with RAW drives

[@batvanio]

@@band1tt I have missed something very important. The test was with my old SSD, not a hard drive. I have never received a RAW on a hard drive. (I've changed about 10 so far in approximately 30 years) The only hard drives where I have lost information are my first one from our first computer picked up used 30-odd years ago (20 Mbyte) and another one, but the problem was actually in the Windows itself which has a very buggy structure. There if there are failures and it is formatted all the failure information is lost and Windows still tries to write to the failed locations. This NFTS structure is big garbage. FAT is much more reliable because it keeps the information for each cluster of the disk including the damaged sections. My longest running drive has worked for about 8yrs without a break and I replaced it simply because it is at times slower, but never has and now doesn't have even one bad sector. Still after a 24 in a day job approx 8yrs its working and not someone expensive but even the opposite. In fact it was one of the cheapest possible he had. Toshiba is Toshiba. Too bad they are no longer available at least in my country.

[@shutlap]

i have a corrupt sd and am looking for anyone to recommend software or help me recover it, do you know if you could help?

[@sanjoypanda643]

I have a 256 GB microSD card which became RAW outta nowhere. 1. Tried DiskDrill. It found nothing. 2. Chdsk didn't work 3. Tried DiskGenius. Basic MBR is greyed out and Load Current Partition Intellegently option is not coming. Please help 🙏🏻

[@cleverfiles]

Please, contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@DweebleNW]

Is there any soft we that can offer more than 500mb!?

[@magicsounds1]

What if the drive is write protected can you still get the data on the drive

[@cleverfiles]

Sure, you can scan it to access the data. Write protection means that you can't write or copy any data to this drive, but you can read or view the data from it

[@magicsounds1]

@@cleverfiles well I figured out the write protection it was windows I reinstall it and that fixed the problem

[@DARKCOP2011]

WWhat if the disk hangs the operative system and i cant even open any software ?

[@cleverfiles]

Try unplugging the drive until the system loads properly and then plug it in. If this won't help you should contact the Data recovery centre: www.cleverfiles.com/salvage/

[@likevachi]

Tried method 3 today, lost data. I'm only getting 5 files as opposed to when it was in RAW when I at least got some 159GB of data. Should I just wait for the scan to complete?

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@esteemedenergy]

My Windows 11 driver would no longer boot, used another drive with Windows 11 and found the original has a RAW partition. Nothing will save it, nothing. Tried all of the free software, does not even show up in most of them. Sometimes just the first partition of the drive, but not he primary. Cannot covert this to NTFS.

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@Hawlk12]

This is the closest to a hdd sata right? Can this work for game files. Idk what I'm doing I'll pay you

[@cleverfiles]

It depends. Please, scan your drive with the free version of Disk Drill to check.

[@iammisakimae]

ive use all the method but still icant open or recover my files

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further assistance.

[@pBinx-bd8xg]

Disk Drill is worthless - DO NOT USE THIS

[@shutlap]

i have a corrupt sd and am looking for anyone to recommend software or help me recover it, do you know if you could help?

[@natedogfisher9408]

What should I use

[@gidbi]

​@@shutlapwill nothing work :( maybe try linux...i tried.many options and none worked😢

[@LuvHrtZ]

I tried this software and was informed that no data was recovered. This was even though my directory utility software could read the drive in question. Although, after a reboot, the OS couldn't see the drive. I'm at my wits end.

[@cleverfiles]

Please contact us at [e-mail] for further asistance.

[@alfiecollumbell9740]

are you taking the piss £91? how about you help people out with a temporary day or week subscription for unlimited recovery amounts for not a ludicrous price

[@ireviewmovies4fun]

What about R-Studio ? Or Autopsy maybe ?

[@cleverfiles]

You can find the list of supported files here: www.cleverfiles.com/help/file-types/ Even if the file type is not listed there, chances are you can still recover it. Please, scan your drive with the free version of Disk Drill to check.

[@andrewysk7181]

Hey, is it possible to convert RAW to NTFS without loosing data?

[@cleverfiles]

Yes

[@cleverfiles]

In simple words, you can convert RAW to NTFS without losing data by first doing RAW file recovery using a data recovery software and then formatting the RAW drive to NTFS.

[@NoEgg4u]

@5:45 "...except change the file system to exFAT". Why exFAT and not NTFS? I have a failed external drive (the file system was NTFS and inexplicably changed itself to RAW). I am looking for a way to recover the entire drive. If all else fails, and I go with the quick format, then why are you recommending exFAT? Thank you.

[@cleverfiles]

It doesn't matter whether you choose NTFS or exFAT for quick formatting. We recommend exFAT as it is read/write compatible with Windows, OS X and Linux.

[@alina-m]

Thank you for the tutorial! TestDisk helped me to restore lost partition for free 🎉

[@cleverfiles]

Glad it helped!

[@pc4ad]

Even on a Raw file system, one can run the good old chkdsk /f command. I have multiple instances where all was recovered (that were formerly in NTFS format). I did make a sector by sector disk copy of the drives where this happened, but did not need those copies afterwards. Give it a try and let me know if it worked out for anyone

[@bailey125]

You can't run chkdsk on RAW file type.

[@pc4ad]

@@bailey125 I thought so too, but I figured - I can try and fail or loose all data. As I made a backup (sector for sector copy) first, it did work out just fine. It was NTFS - that might have helped. On FAT16/FAT32/ExFat this might not work indeed. But never tried, you won't know for sure!

[@bailey125]

@@pc4ad How did you get it ro run? cmd just spits out an error and says chkdsk cant be run on RAW.

[@pc4ad]

@@bailey125 I ran CMD as administrator. Trying to access the drive failed using G: But then running CHKDSK G: /F got it started and running, although it took quite a while before it completed. Of course I can't guarantee success, but this worked out for me. It might depend on the filesystem used and what damaged the drive

[@bailey125]

@@pc4ad Hmm I also tried that to no success. The file system was originally NTFS I believe. Maybe there's something else wrong with mine.

[@lukasantos5046]

Tenorshare o q é?

[@hypercrack7440]

You're 2 days late man. I lost mine 😭

[@code6nightgamer]

Sorry mate

[@gordansalaihav7926]

"At least watch the first solution...this is the software I shall be using...." Goodbye.

[@MJ720]

Thanks, I think I'll give Disk Drill a go. Got 9gb (ish) to recover so that's not good.

[@cleverfiles]

You're welcome!

[@MJ720]

@@cleverfiles I did use it to test and I could recover 500mb of photos in the end. I then discovered another software that was free to recover photo files so eventually got all 9gb back with only 10 out of over 1000 photos fully corrupted. Thanks again.

[@Literally_Kai]

​@@MJ720 What software was that?

[@MJ720]

@@Literally_Kai RePicVid. Free for image files. The premium version is required for video, audio and other types of files.

[@Literally_Kai]

@@MJ720 thanks ^^

[@BarfingGerbil]

OK, cool. Now show it recovering the internal drive main "Windows" partiton using the WinRE partition. :-)

[@vendelkiss3460]

Nice little video. But he is not interested in your image, but in the method of those who need it. So screenshots, using a step-by-step method, are an effective and good solution. So it's just garbage on the internet.

[@shutlap]

i have a corrupt sd and am looking for anyone to recommend software or help me recover it, do you know if you could help?

[@TheInfamousRPGGroup-on-Rumble]

"letting a drive sit too long" lmfao. so basically having a backup is useless. computers are so weak XD

[@nickloss2377]

that's how computers and memory works dude. if you don't like it, you can go back to using an abacus.. otherwise get with the times and educate yourself on how computers work. Computers are not magic. they have limitations. they're not going to be able to keep your data for an infinite amount of time..

[@asdasdasdasdasdas4119]

paid to promote diskdrill lol

[@loboferoz4592]

lol, shiller inside