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Recover Data from RAW Drives with FonePaw Data Recovery Here are two solutions to fix RAW file system when CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives: you may convert the RAW drive to NTFS, which is accessible, by using CMD or you can recover data from the RAW drive and then format the RAW drive to NTFS/FAT32/exFAT file system.

The files in the drive cannot be read or transfer.Īnd since Chkdsk cannot work on a RAW drive, you get the message: CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.Īs CHKDSK cannot fix RAW drive, how can we fix RAW drive without formatting the USB drive, SD card? You don't want to lose the files on the RAW drive.

Windows tells you that the drive needs to be formatted (opens new window).

If you get one of the following errors, your drive is probably RAW: RAW drive can happen to hard drives, USB drive or SD card. So RAW drive is a drive without a file system and need to be formatted. But if a drive has no readable file system, it will be read as a "RAW" drive. Storage devices like flash drive, SD card or external hard drive need to be formatted to a readable file system (NTFS, FAT32, etc.) before they can be read and used.