

No matter what the cause of your RAW drive, it is recommended to backup or recover files from RAW drive prior to repairing it. Virus/malware infects your external hard drive, making it inaccessible.The external disk contains bad sectors, for example, the disk area which stores file system information turns to bad sectors, and the drive won't be recognized by system.There is something wrong with the USB port, USB cable or power supplier.There is a sudden failure during using the external hard drive, for example, power outage, connection issue, improper system shut down, etc.You disconnect external hard drive without using the safe ejection option, especially when Windows hasn't finished reading or writing actions to the drive.Various reasons can lead to a RAW external hard drive and you may belong to one of these scenarios: Hence, you should look for some solutions that can fix/repair RAW external hard drive without formatting and data loss. If files in the RAW external hard drive are of great importance to you, formatting is not the desired solution.

The message box gives an option to fix RAW drive, which is formatting it! Partition formatting can fix most file system errors, but the side-effect is losing all files in the partition. Do you want to format it?" or "The parameter is incorrect".

If you attempt to open it in Windows, you are likely to receive an error message which might be "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable", "You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it. When your external hard drive or other storage devices (such as internal hard drive, USB flash drive, memory card) becomes RAW format, you can neither open it in File Explorer nor access files on the device. Why do you need to fix RAW external hard drive without formatting?

