How to Recover Data from Raw File System
Sometimes when we try to access hard drive, USB drive or memory card, a popup dialogue box is shown as: "The disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" In this situation, the file system is shown as "RAW" when we check the disk property. If we click "No", the partition cannot be accessed. On contrary, if we click "Yes", of course, we will lose all of the files stored on this partition. Then, you may ask: "Is there any method to rescue this RAW, How to achieve raw recovery operation on Mac?" Here we will provide some information to recover data from raw file system.
What's Raw File System?
Since our files get lost due to RAW file system, what is RAW file system? RAW file system is not a regular file system in operating system. RAW file system is a system error which presents a problem of our computers and makes our files inaccessible. SD card can become RAW and not readable in computer, external hard drive can become RAW if we insert it to PC and any other storage media has the possibility to fell into RAW file system problems.
The reasons caused raw file system can be many, such as virus infection, format failure, improper system shut down, power outages, etc. In these processes the file system may be corrupted and the file system may become RAW that cannot be recognized by computer. So you cannot store data on it or even access it.
What is Raw Recovery and When to Use?
Raw recovery means to read files without reference to an operating system. So after using raw recovery function to scan the hard drive, the list of lost files will be displayed in a tree according to the file type. The Raw scan mode can locate the files without the aid of file system.
Normal data recovery method cannot scan a drive which has suffered a serious corruption or overwriting. As I stated above, raw data recovery is reading without reference to an operating system. Therefore, you can choose to use raw file recovery after operating system corruption and overwriting. In the same way, raw data recovery will still work when the temporary copies are creating, because it can recover deleted files and data from the partition where operating system and applications are installed.
Perform Raw Recovery
uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac is a powerful raw recovery software, which can perform RAW data recovery while the normal recovery methods are of no effect. It can also recover deleted, lost, damaged and formatted data from hard drive or partition. Even if you have written new data into that hard drive or partition, uFlysoft Raw Recovery still find its directory tree from hard drive. If you are not using Mac but Windows PC, try uFlysoft Photo Recovery for Win to perform lost photo recovery on your Windows PC easily.
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