{"id":2802,"date":"2020-04-24T19:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catdatarecovery.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:37:01","slug":"raw-to-ntfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdatarecovery.com\/data-recovery\/raw-to-ntfs","title":{"rendered":"Convert RAW to NTFS Without Losing Data Using these Four Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A RAW partition is a partition that does not have a file system or file structure. The File system is essential for any operating system to read the data present within. Hence, if your NTFS file system has turned RAW on your Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, or 11 computers, the OS will not be able to read the information and files present within the partition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your NTFS drive can turn RAW due to various reasons such as corruption, physical errors such as accumulation of bad sectors, disk malfunction, or other physical damages, corrupt partition table, virus or malware infection, incorrect settings or improperly configured operations in the Disk Management, and failed file system conversion process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might receive any of the following messages or errors when your NTFS partition or disk has turned RAW:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scenarios and Error Messages That Refer to A RAW Partition:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The properties of the partition show as 0 bytes used<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou need to format the disk in the drive before you can use it,<\/em>\u201d error<\/li>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it?<\/em>\u201d error<\/li>\n\n\n\n