How to Recover Data and Restore Hard Drive Partitions After Data Loss | RAW Hard Drive

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Data loss is something all of us run into at least once in our lives: one fine day, all of our data is suddenly gone. Today I’ll show you how to recover data when a hard drive unfortunately turns RAW, which is also a common case

Why Does a Hard Drive Turn RAW?

There are many causes of a hard drive losing its format (RAW). Here are a few cases:

• Shutting down the computer suddenly, power outages, strong shaking (in general, external impacts)
• Errors while repartitioning the hard drive, for example when you use some third-party partition manager such as Partition Wizard, EASEUS Partition Master… and it fails partway through => hard drive error.
• Virus damage. That’s right, viruses don’t just steal information and encrypt data…. they can also damage/corrupt your hard drive

How to Recover Data When a Hard Drive Has Turned RAW

When your drive is RAW, clicking any partition brings up a box telling you to Format disk before you can open this partition. Don’t rush to click Format disk, because if you do, all the data on the partition will be wiped out.

And in Disk Management, the RAW drive shows up like this

Here I use Minitool Partition Wizard 
Then click Partition Recovery

In this dialog box, click Next >

There are 3 options here

• Full Disk: Scanning entire disk
• Unallocated Space: Scanning free space only
• Specified range: scans only the specified range

Here I’ll choose Full Disk to scan the entire drive

At this step, you’ll see 2 options:

• Quick Scan: Quick scan can restore your partition if your lost/deleted partitions are continuous. When program finds a lost/deleted partition, it will jump to the end of the partition to continue scanning other lost/deleted partitions
• Full Scan: Full scan will scan every sector of specified scanning range. If Quick Scan cannot find lost partition(s), try Full Scan to allocate partition(s).

In my case, I’ll choose Quick Scan, and if Quick Scan doesn’t work for you, choose Full Scan instead, but it will take longer

Here you’ll see the data partitions you lost. Just check all the partitions you want to get back and click Finish

Then click Apply to save the partitions
When you’re done, open This PC (Windows + E) to check. If you don’t see the data, go to disk management or go to Start and type diskmgmt.msc 

Here, right-click the partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths…

Here, select Add

At this step, choose a name for the drive and click OK

Do the same for the other partitions

And here is the result: all the data and partitions have been recovered

Testing an image file 😀

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