DISK DATA RECOVERY

“Hello! There! I borrowed a USB thumb drive to transfer some school activity photos. But, its file system suddenly changed into RAW instead of FAT32 or NTFS last night. There were 0 bytes free and 0 bytes used.” This is a situation we found when browsing the famous Tom’s Hardware. Are you familiar with this scenery?
 
Or in other words, have you ever met the situation when your USB flash drive became RAW? This is actually not a rare phenomenon, so whether you’re stuck in such situation right now or not, you need to know about this to be well prepare for timely RAW USB drive recovery.
 

When USB Flash Drive Became RAW

As a matter of fact, USB drives, such as USB external hard disk, USB flash drive and USB memory card, are used more and more frequently in our life & work. If we didn’t use it properly or met virus attack suddenly, the following cases may appear:
 
*– It shows as invalid media type reading drive. And the system will ask you to Abort, Retry or just let it Fail?
*– The file system of USB flash drive became RAW suddenly when we try to access it.
*– Error messages like “You need to format the disk in drive * before you can use it. Do you want to format it?” emerge right after you click on the corrupted drive.
*– File names contain some weird characters.
 

 
When encountering these, users shouldn’t reformat the drive immediately in order to make it usable again. Instead, they are supposed to seize time to recover RAW USB flash drive
 

3 Steps to Finish RAW USB Drive Recovery

 

 
Step 1: install and open MiniTool Power Data Recovery, and then choose “Damaged Partition Recovery” to start to recover data from RAW file system.
 
Step 2: select the USB device which has become RAW and click on “Full Scan” to search for files in it.
 
Step 3: select all the files you need and click on “Save” to save them out to a drive working normally.
 
After this, users can reformat the USB drive or do other operations to make it working well. And then, users can also choose to transfer back the recovered data to USB drive again as they like. But we strongly suggest that they back up important data this time. Are you clear about how to recover data from RAW USB flash drive now? We bet the answer is a big “Yes”.