Help Format a RAW Hard Drive to NTFs

October 26 2012 , Written by Mark Art Published on #format raw to ntfs, #raw file systme recovery

The window shows that my hard drive is a RAW drive now. Well, the Windows pops up" The drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" Something went wrong while I want try to follow the Windows message to format the drive. Now my hard drive is useless. I can see it with Disk Management, but I cannot format it and read that data in it. How can I format a RAW hard drive to NTFs without any data loss? If it is not possible, please help me at least make the hard drive usable again.

This is one of the most common problems about data recovery. The hard drive cannot be formatted while it is shown as a RAW drive. The RAW drive can occur due to many reasons including format failure, physically damage, and virus attack and accidentally power off and so on. Once you encountered with the RAW hard drive problem, you will get an error message "The disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" If you click "No", you may never have any chance to access the hard drive. If you click "Yes", you may lose all the data which has been stored on this hard drive. What is worse, you cannot format the hard drive even if you click "Yes".

Many people always ask how to format or convert a RAW hard drive to NTFs when they encountered with the similar problem like above. But in fact, to convert a RAW hard drive to NTFs doesn’t mean you can convert it directly, but recover data from a RAW hard drive by relying on a powerful and reliable data recovery tool, then format the RAW hard drive and it will be converted to NTFs. iCare Data Recovery Free is such a professional software which can recover data from a RAW hard drive. It is a freeware and enables you to recover data from a RAW drive effectively.

Steps to Recover Data from a RAW Hard Drive

Step 1: Free download iCare Data Recovery Free from its site and install it on your computer with several clicks.

Step 2: Run this software and enter the interface of this software. You can select a proper module for your case and select the hard drive you want to recover and click "Recover" to begin to scan.

Step 3: When the scan is finished, the software will show you all the files it has found during the scan process. You can preview these files by clicking "File Preview".

Step 4: Choose the files that you want to recover and click the "Recover" option to save them.

Done! Your data has been successfully recovered within only 4 simple steps.