How to Migrate Raw Hard Drive to NTFS?

This article highlights how to Migrate RAW Format Hard Drive into NTFS File System without losing a single unit of your precious data from your Windows system. Hard drives are highly sensitive and can get damaged due to reasons such as dust particles on hard drive platters, drop down from a little height, virus infection, etc. Sometimes, these situations affect the hard drive’s file system and turn it to RAW i.e. the damaged file system becomes inaccessible to the user.

Your hard disk can turn into RAW any time without showing any particular reason, and suddenly, you are unable to access your hard drive data. But the silver lining is that you can now easily recover your hard drive data and can also migrate it into the different file system. Let’s look at how.

First, let’s look at the probable error messages you may receive when the hard drive turns into RAW:

• “The D Drive is not formatted; do you want to format it?”

• “The hard disk D drive is not formatted”

• “The drive is not accessible” 

• “Drive Appear as RAW in Disk Management” 

• “Check disk does not Support RAW drive”

If you see any of the above error messages with your hard drive, then it implies that drive has lost its file system and needs to be changed. But the question arises as to how it is possible to migrate RAW drive into NTFS format without losing our data from it. 

Follow the steps below to Recover your data from a RAW hard drive:

1. Launch Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software on your system.

2. After launching it on your system, next, select the RAW drive for recovery and click on the RAW recovery option. 

After clicking on RAW recovery option, the software will scan each and every sector of your hard disk to detect the lost location of data. After completing the scanning process, the software will give you the preview of a RAW drive data, which was not accessible earlier. After previewing your recoverable data, you can save it to your desired location by purchasing its licensed version.

Now, you can easily execute migration process of RAW drive into NTFS. Follow the below steps:

1. Format the RAW drive 

2. Right-click on the RAW drive by going to my computer window

3. Select Format to change the drive file system 

4. Click on Start and then click OK

After executing the above steps, your drive will be available for reuse and can easily turn into another file system. To know more about hard drive file system migration, visit: http://harddrivefix.blogspot.in/2015/10/how-to-convert-fat-file-system-into-ntfs.html  blog. In this blog, you will get detailed information about the file system and how you can change it with ease.

The Way Forward: 

RAW hard drive implies a drive which has lost only its file system and not the data from it. Therefore, even if a hard drive turns into a RAW form, it can be easily recovered by leveraging Stellar’s RAW data recovery software - Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery.