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?"

In the life of most computer users, there must have been both mechanical and logical problems with hard drives. Today we will look at such an error as RAW markup.

A RAW error is a special Windows file system markup that the operating system assigns to the drive in case none of the drivers installed on the PC could recognize the current disk system. Below we give instructions for solving the problem, but first we will analyze the main symptoms of a RAW external hard drive error, so that you can be sure about what happened to it.

In this article you will learn about Google Drive and its advantages, the process of synchronizing with PC and cloud storage, and, finally, how to recover deleted data.

In Windows world, there are two major file systems: FAT and NTFS. A file system is used to format storage media such as hard drives, memory cards, USB flash drives and other types of storage.