But the question is, how can you repair the RAW disk and convert RAW to NTFS without losing your data?Īs you may already know, converting your drive removes all the files stored on the drive. Besides, you are not able to use it for data storage until you convert the RAW hard drive to NTFS by formatting it. When your hard drive or partition becomes RAW, you cannot access the files on it. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.' Why Do You Need to Convert RAW to NTFS? 'There was an error accessing drive X: The disk is not formatted.' ' You need to format the disk in drive X before you can use it.' However, you only get to know if your external hard drive or USB flash drive may become RAW when you see one of the following notifications on your computer: You can use the properties or Disk Management to see if the file system is RAW. Notifications of Hard Drive/Partition Becoming RAW If you connect an external hard drive that uses the AFPS file system to your Windows computer, your computer will show the drive as RAW. Windows supports FAT, NTFS, exFAT, Live File System, and ReFS file systems. The file system of your hard drive or partition is damaged.Your computer's operating system can't recognize the file system of the disk.When an (external) hard drive, USB flash drive, or partition becomes the RAW format, it indicates three kinds of possibilities:

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