Chkdsk is not available for raw drives

RAW means the partition is not ready to be accessed or explored. So it is not an accepted file system in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, etc. A disk can turn to RAW due to files system damage. Thus RAW drive brings about data loss issue as it cannot be opened.

Why chkdsk is not available for RAW drives

CHKDSK, short name for check disk, is used in Windows to scan hard drive and find problem which is a useful utility for disk maintenance and troubleshooting. However, since chkdsk command fails to repair file system errors, RAW file system is no longer repairable. You need to recreate file system instead of repairing it.

Therefore, we have to format RAW drive to create new file system for the corrupted partition. Formatting can be done in Windows Explorer or Disk Management, but formatting will erase all data on the RAW drive, which means you will lose everything. Thus it’s not recommended to format it if there are important files in RAW drive. The first and foremost step is recovering data from RAW disk.

How to recover data from RAW disk?

We would like to recommend you the free data recovery software – Bitwar data recovery to recover data effectively, safely and completely from RAW drive or the disk shows 0 bytes.

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