How to convert RAW volume to NTFS and recover all inaccessible data?
Symptoms Sometimes a damaged volume may lose its file system type. Various error messages may appear, most common messages are: The volume X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? The disk in drive X: is not formatted. There was an error accessing drive X: The disk is not formatted. Also a CHKDSK tool will be complained that is unable to perform a RAW file system recovery. The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Sep-by-step instruction to recover RAW volume To recover the files from RAW Disk, please follow these steps: 1. Click the Select “Complete Recovery” button on the main window of the Data Recovery Wizard. 2. Select the file types you want to recover. Tick ‘Search all lost files automatically’ to find all lost file types. Tick ‘Ignore bad sectors’ to skip bad sectors when scanning. 3. You can see the list of logical volumes found on your computer. 4. Select the “RAW” disk or inaccessible logic disk. 5. Click “Next” to begin scanning f
