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Restoring a Flash Drive with the RAW File System

Restoring a Flash Drive with the RAW File System

Before proceeding directly with restoring a flash drive, let's take a look at what the RAW flash drive partition is.

The term RAW file system is used to refer to a hard drive whose name was not recognized by any of the file system drivers installed in the operating system. If the drive system was identified as RAW, data reading, writing and other operations aimed at working with a damaged drive are impossible. At the same time, the system is able to display the size of the partitions or, when accessing them, offers to format them.

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How to Connect a Hard Disk to a Laptop for Data Recovery

How to Connect a Hard Disk to a Laptop for Data Recovery

In this article we will look at a phased process of connecting a hard drive from a PC system unit to your laptop to recover deleted data.

In today's world, it’s hard to find someone who has never faced a personal data loss situation in his life. It can be family photos, favorite movies and even valuable work material, the loss of which can lead to the most unforeseen consequences.

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How to Recover Data After Reinstalling Windows OS

How to Recover Data After Reinstalling Windows OS

It is not a secret for anyone that at the moment of reinstalling the operating system a full formatting of all the storage media installed on the computer is performed. Of course, this process completes entirely under control and only those HDD partitions that the user will personally select are cleared. However, sometimes you can be careless and accidentally format not the disk volume, but the entire physical media.

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Correcting the RAW File System on an SD Card

Correcting the RAW File System on an SD Card

Sometimes the file system of our drives may be damaged for some reason and become unreadable in the Windows operating system and is represented in RAW format. Windows will not be able to open the contents of the device and will prompt you to format the SD card. Otherwise, if you do not confirm this offer, the system will notify you of an error every time you try to view a file.

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How to Fix the “Removable USB HDD is not Formatted” Error

How to Fix the “Removable USB HDD is not Formatted” Error

In some cases, when you connect an external hard drive to your computer, Windows may start sending messages to the user that the HDD is not formatted and offer to format drive after reading the error information. In this situation, the user loses all access to the damaged drive, in addition to being able to see its size, and, of course, many question arises, "Is it possible to resolve the issue without losing data?"

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