About RAW Partition Issue

 
As you know, RAW partition is a very common issue. What is RAW partition? Generally RAW is a file system which can’t be recognized by Windows, that is to say, it is a partition which is not formatted by NT system, such as NTFS and FAT. If the partition is in RAW file system, it is not allowed to access this drive in Windows explorer. If you open the drive “Properties”, you will find both used space and free space of this RAW drive show as “0”.
 
Let’s see an example:
“I have 2 partition and some unallocated space in Windows 7. One partition is H drive where large data is stored. I was trying to add some unallocated partition to my J drive. When I was doing this work, my laptop turned off due to battery low. Now my J is showing as a RAW partition. What should I do to get back my drive data? The data in it is very significant. ”
 
When RAW partition issue occurs, all data in RAW drive may be lost. You may ask why does it happen and how to recover data from RAW partition? Don’t worry. Please read on.
 

Why Does RAW File System Happen

 
If your partition is in RAW file system, it may occur because of the following reasons:
 
1. After reinstalling system, you may find some partitions are not formatted, so RAW partition issue occurs.
2. When you do some partition and disk operations, accidentally power failure occurs, RAW problem may appear.
3. If there are bad sectors in your hard drive, you may encounter this issue.
4. When the partition is damaged or corrupted, it is possible to be in RAW file system.
 
If you store many important files in a partition but this partition is in RAW file system due to some reasons, how will you do to recover data from RAW file system? Here is a good solution to solve this problem.
 

How to Recover Data from RAW Partition

 
When encountering RAW problem, please note don’t do any operation to this partition. You can choose to use a professional data recovery software to recover RAW partition data. In the market, MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition is popular and highly recommended. As a professional data recovery software, it can be used to recover data from CD/DVD, digital medias, damaged or lost partitions for free by its five recovery modules, such as “Undelete Recovery”, “Lost Partition Recovery”, “CD/DVD Recovery”, “Damaged Partition Recovery” and “Digital Media Recovery”. This freeware is compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows XP, Windows Vista and so on.
 
Here are the steps to do RAW data recovery:

Step 1: Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery and you can see there are five recovery modules. Here please select “Damaged Partition Recovery” module which can be used to recover data from formatted, RAW and damaged partitions.
 

 
Step 2: Select the target partition you want to do raw data recovery. Then click “Full Scan” to scan all files in this partition.
 

 
Step 3: After scanning the partition, you can find the files in this RAW partition. Please select the files you want to recover. “Type” and “Filter” features can be used to help to find files quickly. This software also allows previewing files.
 

 
Step 4: Then click “Save” to recover the files to another partition or disk.
 

 
It is really useful to recover data from RAW partition in Windows 7 with MiniTool Power Data Recovery. If you want to try this freeware to solve your problem, please download it.
 
Note: MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition can recover up to 1GB data for free. If the files you want to recover is larger than 1GB, please upgrade to its Professional License or more advanced editions.