A hard drive or partition is declared as RAW, which Windows finds as not formatted. Windows may prompt some error messages, stating that disk is not formatted or the type of file system in 'RAW'. Actually it is the file system type which gets affected, when the disk or partition fails. File system type is stored in partition table or LDM database (in case of dynamic disks) and volume boot sector, either of which failure can make the file system unrecognizable under Windows.
RAW hard drive is recoverable through Windows data recovery procedures and with Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software; the process is simple, fast and productive. Phoenix Windows Recovery uses the effective scanning algorithms to extract out the possible data. Follow mentioned steps to recover data from RAW hard drives:
Recover data from RAW hard drives
