Really don´t know what to say....I´m completely Stunned....tons of vids watched millions of different procedures tried, hundreds of work hours and you did it in 10:18seg...thx so much! Saved another life here! God Bless you and yours too! All the best to you for good!!!
wurde die festplatte von raw in ntfs ohne datenverlust wiederhergestellt bei dir? hab auch eine festplatte mit raw und möchte meine erinnerungen zurück ohne formatierung....
Many articles on the internet are advertisement for the data recovery tools and this guide is so freaking incredible for those who are panic on save the hard drive.
Thank you man! I must say that it looked like you didnt know what you did in you video. But the video helped me. now all my files are back! Thank you soo muuch!
Thank you very much! I'm using Win 10 and this worked a treat for me. I have a Seagate external HDD which went "RAW". I thought I'd lost everything on it. I bought some recovery software which only did half a job and also took hours. Then I saw your video and I was fixed in a matter of minutes. 👍 Got all my data back, copied to a new drive. Just wish I'd seen this earlier and saved myself £69 for some crap software! 🤣
My man, I searched for so many solutions for this issue but no one has explained and given a proper solution. I just want to say thank you from my bottom of my heart. God bless you and may god fulfill all your wishes. Thank you so much, I got all my data recovered.
This video needs to be re-uploaded in 1080p, some of the text stuff and actions aren't readable with the visual quality being so low quality instead of a HD picture. Because this is an excellent video in dealing with this kind of problem which is rare enough but is something we all should be made far more aware of? When NTFS hard drives go all "RAW" on users all of a sudden!
You have saved my familiy photos and movies fro our child and we! It is works perfectly! Our IT manager told me the files destroyed and no chance to repait the drive. Thanks and God bless U!
chkdsk works only if the file system is NTFS it does not work if file system is FAT32 like in pen drives and says chkdsk is not available for raw drives
You saved the day ánd my 1 TB external drive! Looked and asked in every community to rescue my NTFS drive which suddenly changed in to a RAW partition, but to no avail. And you did it! Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
This worked for me. I accidentally deleted the partition of my 2tb external hdd. I tried the Data Recovery and the Partition Recovery softwares from Minitool but the data recovery was displaying 100+ hours to finish. I saw this video and tried. Now all data recovered. I didn't do the permission thing since my drive showed up after the chkdsk process. Thank you so much for saving 2 plus years worth of my precious data!
This is my first comment ever on a video. Have to say a million times thank you. I just recoverd 59Gb of videos and pics taken on a trip to the Phillipines. Once again thank you so so so so so so very much.
Hi bro will it really work ?? A friend of mine copied EaseUS software to my external HDD and very next moment when I connected the HDD to my computer it's showing raw :(
yes it did work for me ! CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives, only showed up for me in normal mode. Just use safe mode and use /f for fix at the end. You should be good to go after that. Good luck!
I had two corrupt partitions on the same HDD. I was able to recover one of them. That alone, is worth my thanks. You saved my comedy files man. I have gotten through some tough stuff because of those files. Thanks.
Even though the disc is showing as raw, using ckhdsk brings this result:: "the type of the file system is NTSF Unable to determine volume version & state. chkdsk aborted". So how to proceed now?
I had the same problem and the only way to fix it was booting Ubuntu on a usb drive and using the simple command line “sudo ntfsfix”. For better instructions, search on yt for a video called “solve ntfs mount problem on ubuntu”
@@damngood555 I had the same problem and the only way to fix it was booting Ubuntu on a usb drive and using the simple command line “sudo ntfsfix”. For better instructions, search on yt for a video called “solve ntfs mount problem on ubuntu”
not all the conditions HDD can be succeed converted in this way, if you've been following it step by step and still not succeeded, I apologize if it can't help you, maybe your HDD is different hardware conditions.
No, it is normal problem with RAW disks...look at comments, I am not the only one. You just, or windows actually, cannot use chkdsk with RAW HDD's, that is it.
You just saved me from paying EaseUS and I was able to recover all my data from a WD Passport drive that had years of stuff on it. Thank you doesn't seem like enough but THANK YOU!!
If there was a way to meet with you in person.. I would probably give you a very good treat at a restaurant cause Your video saved my 5 days of work in just 1 minute.. I don't know what to say but huge thanks man!!!!!!!!
You can probably run the chkdsk as Administrator. My entire external drive was changed to RAW format. I downloaded and used a program called Recuva to recover the files I felt most important before trying to follow this video. After using that program, I followed this video and typed cmd in the search, then right-clicked, and chose to 'run as administrator.' Then I put in the chkdsk f/ H: (which is the drive of mine that's not working). Then it's starting to do the process under Stage 1: Examining the basic file system structure... So far many files are being read, but many also say 'File record segment is unreadable.' It may be because those are the ones I recovered already with the Recufa software. I'll have to wait until the process is finished to know for sure.
@@EveryonesADude : Hi. Trying to remember correctly, this allowed me to change the HDD format from RAW properly after waiting a while. By using the program called Recuva, I was able to recover all but a very small number of files that I'm aware of. I tried a few things to get the HDD working again properly after changing the hard drive format to the proper one to use as normal but gave up on it. I was able to save new information on it again, but then when hooking it up to another PC and trying to get into the files, it would just freeze up when trying. But the good news for me was being able to save all that precious (to me) data, including resumes, tax information, and a huge number of MP3s I had purchased over at least 15 or more years with plenty of music I still listen to often! I give props to people trying to help even if what works for others may not have worked for me. In my case, the recovery software was the way to at least save nearly all the information, and I'm still very thankful nearly a half a year later! 8)
@@Rushtallica Thank you so much for responding!! I haven't checked out the program you mentioned, but I'll definitely give it a shot. This raw code is just making it inaccessible 😵 it seems as though I have to format the card and then attempt to recover all of my photos and videos 😭
@@EveryonesADude You're welcome. Yeah, I think this is the site I downloaded from originally. It's worth checking out IMO, and I think I may have looked up a RUclips video about it before using it, too. Hopefully you'll get everything back! : www.ccleaner.com/recuva
Hey! Huge kudos and thank you for this video, saved my friends data! Didnt even need to give permissions. Now I can back it all up from that old hard drive to their new ssd.
Lifesaver. After hrs of searching on google which leads to nothing but ads to buy recovery software I tried this and was going within minutes. Possibly helps to run CMD as administrator.
oh gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it really works on my sony external hard disk..... i have tried so many methods shown on youtube but none of them works....... thank u very much guyzzzzzzzzzzzz..... really thanks...... u have saved my valuble data.......
It worked. I have a 2 TB HDD Passport. Search many solutions on the internet and youtube before but none of them worked. My problem is when i plug my harddisk, there is a notif sound, it appears on my computer but cannot open. Then i open disk management, It says RAW file format. I follow your instruction by typing chkdsk /f H: because my disk name is H. Then i tried to opn it and it worked on the first step. I didnt follow the next step because the first step has shown a result. Thank you. You are my savior.
2018, May. (on windows 10 pro) Lenovo z570. Thanks a lot man. Now I''m able to access my WD 2 TB external HDD after it was after it became RAW partition when it was unplugged accidentally. I was able to open my HDD just after the first step 'ckhdsk' cmd prompt. Though I know that I can recover my data, If I didn't know this method, I would have to invest around 9,000 INR to get another HDD to save the recovered files. You saved my money and helped me stay cool. Thank You!!! (btw I liked ur video)
i had the same problem i changed my laptop that i was working on and it was saying the same and tried to attach my raw external hard disk to another pc and it works for me to do chkdsk and i am now recovering data with m3data recovry app .. try to change ur pc it self .. try on another one .. or another version of windows
You ROCK! Thank you!!!! Situation: Hard Drive somehow went "RAW" after plugging into a windows 10 computer, which failed to read the hard drive. Connected back to windows 7, follows this guy/girl's instructions and successfully repaired the corrupt MFT. " chkdsk /f F: " worked correctly without a problem. Didn't even need to change permissions. After the CMD screen performed the repair, the external drive showed up on auto play and was able to access immediately. Cheers!
@DBZ Hindi Sorry this reply is very late, but you can run the chkdsk as Administrator. My entire external drive was changed to RAW format. I downloaded and used a program called Recuva to recover the files I felt most important before trying to follow this video. After using that program. Then I followed this video and typed cmd in the search, then right-clicked, and chose to 'run as administrator.' Then I put in the chkdsk f/ H: (which is the drive of mine that's not working). Then it's starting to do the process under Stage 1: Examining the basic file system structure... So far many files are being read, but many also say 'File record segment is unreadable.' It may be because those are the ones I recovered already with the Recufa software. I'll have to wait until the process is finished to know for sure.
Genius!! This actually works. Saved all my files unlike some videos on here telling people to format their drives to turn them back from RAW. THANKYOU!
I spent 2 days trying to get my files back on my HDD after accidentally deleting the volume. I tried more than a dozen programs all without any success and then stumbled across this video after wondering if it was possible to just convert a RAW disk to NTFS took me all of 10 seconds to recover all of my data. Tip for anyone having trouble is to make sure that the disk is NOT shown as unallocated in the disk management utility on windows as that is not the same as RAW (you need to right click on the unallocated disk in the disk management utility and select to create new simple volume and DO NOT FORMAT).
Tysm, I haven't thought about doing a chkdsk before doing anything else on my HDD (I only ran some checks and searched for a tutorial until I found yours), I found out that the partition switched to RAW by itself and froze my whole server (it's fine it's a personnal server running Windows Server 2019) and everytime I unplugged it my server would freeze, I did a chkdsk /f and it fixed the problem (did it on my main Windows 11 PC because I was checking if it was working on this PC). I didn't need to edit the permissions to get access to its data. 😄
guess what? I've been stressed out since last night because all of a sudden I couldn't access my external drive. I've read many articles and websites on internet and nothing happened, I've downloaded recovery apps too but nah THANK GOD I FOUND YOUR VIDEO!! MY FILES ARE BACK! IT'S 700GB MAN!! AND IT'S NOT JUST MY FILES SO I'M SCARED TO DEATH WHAT IF I LOST THEM!? THANK YOU! THANK YOU! GOD BLESS YOU MAN!!
I was skeptical with all your flailing around and confusion but It dit work great. It only took a minute in safe mode, chkdsk /f and nothing further. Thank you for the video, it saved me tons of money and time :)
Hi There Your Video saved me from installing unnecessary software and I managed to recover my 300GB partition which had become RAW accidentally and it system was prompting me to format the drive to recover the partition. All my Data is intact. Thanks your video was great help.
Damm you saved my data of past 2000. I never formatted my drive thought it was corrupted finally now in 2022 I was able to access my drive with your method, it was just a random trial and I hoped let try once before I format drive. Thankyou so much Bro ☺️😊❤️✅
Thank you so much man!! I nearly had a heart attack.. I was not able to access the device as I accidentally disconnected the device while something was copying. Glad I came across this video otherwise have been relying on really long route of recovering and formatting. Fortunately I didn't face any issues shown in the video after the Chksk command is complete.
You are a genius mate...worked like a charm for me and didn't have to boot in safe mode...didn't even need to do the permissions thing either...thank you very much
Thanks a lot, it worked on Windows 10 Repair Cmd. I've got my windows system error after unplugged my ssd and replugged it. I tried to recovery and auto repair through windows installation but no effort came up with any result. After checking diskpart list volume, I found that my system partition's letter has changed to :E letter and Raw format. Then I found your video. Greatly helpful
This worked perfectly fine for me... Thank you very much for the video. The partition went raw and all the software over the internet were paid... having such a fix was a blessing :)
Worked like a charm (Y). Thanks mate for sharing such a helpful Fix. Step 1 was enough in my Case. Disk mounted perfectly without any Data loss!! Thanks alot.
Also, thank you so much Takis, in the past I just accepted the loss as soon as a drive appeared as RAW after first time... so glad I found your video. Never knew it could be incorrect and chkdsk detect NTFS
For those with entire drives listed as RAW, you can run the chkdsk as Administrator. My entire external drive had been changed to RAW format. I think it happened when I had my external USB drive plugged in while running CCleaner. Afterward I hadn't been able to access that drive at all, and it'd get stuck when I tried. I downloaded and used a program called Recuva to recover the files I felt most important before trying to follow this video. After using that program, I then followed this video and typed cmd in the search, then right-clicked, and chose to 'run as administrator.' Then I put in the chkdsk f/ H: (which is the drive of mine that's not working). Then it's starting to do the process under Stage 1: Examining the basic file system structure... So far many files are being read, but many also say 'File record segment is unreadable.' It may be because those are the ones I recovered already with the Recuva software. I'll have to wait until the process is finished to know for sure. And that looks like it's going to take a number of hours...
Did you end up being successful? I am still on step 1. Many files say "File record segment is unreadable" also. Think mine will take hours and hours because it is at 34400 out of 219392 files. My external hard drive is a Passport WD 2TB, and is almost full. Hope it works!
Thank you so much and thanks thanks thanks thanks really you are the technical computer really you are the meaning of the solution you saved all my life thank you so so so much
Thank you so much! My HDD fixed just after running the given command in command prompt. I am able to acess my data without any other process you showed after command.
Thank you so much!!!!! My data were recovered! Omg I can’t tell u how much I’m thankful!! All my research data were inside my external hard disk. Thank you so so so so much!!!!!
This is an awesome solution! 2018 on Win 10 it works! I 32GB pendrive got stuck with RAW and I followed the steps according tot his video and it worked!! Thanks for the upload!
Well this worked on the first command, it did a quick scan / fix and listed a few folders I was working with when the drive crapped out. It then mounted after this and I'm backing this thing up asap... ALWAYS EJECT your drives safely, and when you first get "errors detected on this drive'' always back it up. I had no luck pulling up any kind of partition in TestDisk but this Chkdsk worked. Thanks.
This video is working ! AWSM bro thanks. I was tried many videos bhut they not worked and this one worked only in 1st step after command my hardisk automatically opened .Thankyou!!!
Thank you ! Works on win 10 (19042) Dec 2020 ! Recuva recovered something that was actually deleted but did not display any files that ware there (when drive was raw). Was able though to show me that there are 16500 files on drive. Thanks again !!
Hi Bro, I really dont know how to thank you. My 2TB HDD showed the same error and it has so much of important data. You video helped me recovering HDD without any data loss...Thank you very much...Thank you just not enough...God bless you
You saved my files man, I was freaking out when suddenly my HDD just shows up as RAW and my kids' memories are in there. Thank you so much man
Really don´t know what to say....I´m completely Stunned....tons of vids watched millions of different procedures tried, hundreds of work hours and you did it in 10:18seg...thx so much! Saved another life here! God Bless you and yours too! All the best to you for good!!!
hats off!! YOU have saved my 13 years of memories.... such a lifesaver you are!!
wurde die festplatte von raw in ntfs ohne datenverlust wiederhergestellt bei dir? hab auch eine festplatte mit raw und möchte meine erinnerungen zurück ohne formatierung....
Did it really help?
@yogitahire8682, can you please share which operating system you used to run this command on ? was it windows?
Many articles on the internet are advertisement for the data recovery tools and this guide is so freaking incredible for those who are panic on save the hard drive.
you are the savior man.. _/\_
You just saved my 921gb of anime, tv series & movies..
and it save me 5 tb of the same
Thank you man! I must say that it looked like you didnt know what you did in you video. But the video helped me. now all my files are back! Thank you soo muuch!
Thank you very much! I'm using Win 10 and this worked a treat for me. I have a Seagate external HDD which went "RAW". I thought I'd lost everything on it. I bought some recovery software which only did half a job and also took hours. Then I saw your video and I was fixed in a matter of minutes. 👍 Got all my data back, copied to a new drive. Just wish I'd seen this earlier and saved myself £69 for some crap software! 🤣
My man, I searched for so many solutions for this issue but no one has explained and given a proper solution. I just want to say thank you from my bottom of my heart. God bless you and may god fulfill all your wishes. Thank you so much, I got all my data recovered.
This video needs to be re-uploaded in 1080p, some of the text stuff and actions aren't readable with the visual quality being so low quality instead of a HD picture. Because this is an excellent video in dealing with this kind of problem which is rare enough but is something we all should be made far more aware of? When NTFS hard drives go all "RAW" on users all of a sudden!
You have saved my familiy photos and movies fro our child and we! It is works perfectly! Our IT manager told me the files destroyed and no chance to repait the drive. Thanks and God bless U!
chkdsk works only if the file system is NTFS
it does not work if file system is FAT32 like in pen drives
and says chkdsk is not available for raw drives
Saved My 5tb Data just in 2 minutes (No Format no Recovery no External Software) just a simple command wow.... Hatts Off from Pakistan
You're a Family Pictures SAVER!! THANKS DUDE!
You saved the day ánd my 1 TB external drive! Looked and asked in every community to rescue my NTFS drive which suddenly changed in to a RAW partition, but to no avail. And you did it! Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
You're Welcome Friend
Thanks a lot, my HDD is working fine after sckdsk & recover all my IMP Data, successfully work
thanks...this helped me...i cant open my partition for 7 years and now all my data recovered..thanks infinitilion again
works in window 10, Thank you. I almost had a heart attack.
This worked for me. I accidentally deleted the partition of my 2tb external hdd. I tried the Data Recovery and the Partition Recovery softwares from Minitool but the data recovery was displaying 100+ hours to finish. I saw this video and tried. Now all data recovered. I didn't do the permission thing since my drive showed up after the chkdsk process. Thank you so much for saving 2 plus years worth of my precious data!
TRY THIS CMD CHKDSK /F BUR ERROR OCCER IN THE TYPE OF FILE SYSTEM IS RAW CHKDSK IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR RAW DRIVERS HOW TO SOLVE
This is my first comment ever on a video. Have to say a million times thank you. I just recoverd 59Gb of videos and pics taken on a trip to the Phillipines. Once again thank you so so so so so so very much.
You're Welcome Friend
Thank you so much brother, I was so close to format my External HDD, god bless you
Same XD:( :)
Hi bro will it really work ??
A friend of mine copied EaseUS software to my external HDD and very next moment when I connected the HDD to my computer it's showing raw :(
Worked fine on Windows 11 in 2023. Thank you!
it says CHKDSK is not available for rAW drives. can't continue....
Just boot in safe mode and use chkdsk e: /f
Did the safe mode work ?
yes it did work for me ! CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives, only showed up for me in normal mode. Just use safe mode and use /f for fix at the end. You should be good to go after that. Good luck!
Okey cool im on it now, thanks buddy
what is safe mood
I had two corrupt partitions on the same HDD. I was able to recover one of them. That alone, is worth my thanks. You saved my comedy files man. I have gotten through some tough stuff because of those files. Thanks.
doesn't work i have the exact same problem but it said's it doesn't detect drive because it is RAW so whats the real fix here any other commands?
Me too did you eventually get a solution
Format
Really awesome...with one comment you have fixed my Hard disk without losing the data...Thanks
Thank you, thank you so much. Let this be a lesson, back up your important files lads
wow cannot thank you enough, i had 1T of very rare documents that took me ages to scan. got them all back! bless you.
Even though the disc is showing as raw, using ckhdsk brings this result:: "the type of the file system is NTSF Unable to determine volume version & state. chkdsk aborted". So how to proceed now?
I have the same problem
@@kasondemulenga1089 got any solution?
I had the same problem and the only way to fix it was booting Ubuntu on a usb drive and using the simple command line “sudo ntfsfix”. For better instructions, search on yt for a video called “solve ntfs mount problem on ubuntu”
@@damngood555 I had the same problem and the only way to fix it was booting Ubuntu on a usb drive and using the simple command line “sudo ntfsfix”. For better instructions, search on yt for a video called “solve ntfs mount problem on ubuntu”
@@vorinc where can i download the Ubuntu?
With your videos my learning curve will shrink drastically. Thank you.
this was not RAW....chkdsk is not available for RAW drives. What now?
what the format your HDD before?
NTFS, but now it's RAW and chkdsk does not work on RAW disks, as we know...
not all the conditions HDD can be succeed converted in this way, if you've been following it step by step and still not succeeded, I apologize if it can't help you, maybe your HDD is different hardware conditions.
No, it is normal problem with RAW disks...look at comments, I am not the only one. You just, or windows actually, cannot use chkdsk with RAW HDD's, that is it.
yes, this is fake. when he write chkdsk at 1:10, it writes file system is NTFS not RAW.
when i try it writes "CHKDSK is not avalaible for RAW drives"
You just saved me from paying EaseUS and I was able to recover all my data from a WD Passport drive that had years of stuff on it. Thank you doesn't seem like enough but THANK YOU!!
I Open CMD
Typ: Chkdsk /f D:
Error: CHKSDK is not avaible for RAW drives.
samee
Report this video aws spam. Windows cant read RAW Drives. Its true.
If there was a way to meet with you in person.. I would probably give you a very good treat at a restaurant cause Your video saved my 5 days of work in just 1 minute.. I don't know what to say but huge thanks man!!!!!!!!
i start i safe mode but still it says chkdks is not available for raw??
please help me
You can probably run the chkdsk as Administrator. My entire external drive was changed to RAW format. I downloaded and used a program called Recuva to recover the files I felt most important before trying to follow this video. After using that program, I followed this video and typed cmd in the search, then right-clicked, and chose to 'run as administrator.' Then I put in the chkdsk f/ H: (which is the drive of mine that's not working). Then it's starting to do the process under Stage 1: Examining the basic file system structure...
So far many files are being read, but many also say 'File record segment is unreadable.' It may be because those are the ones I recovered already with the Recufa software. I'll have to wait until the process is finished to know for sure.
@@Rushtallica
So what was your outcome??
@@EveryonesADude : Hi. Trying to remember correctly, this allowed me to change the HDD format from RAW properly after waiting a while. By using the program called Recuva, I was able to recover all but a very small number of files that I'm aware of. I tried a few things to get the HDD working again properly after changing the hard drive format to the proper one to use as normal but gave up on it. I was able to save new information on it again, but then when hooking it up to another PC and trying to get into the files, it would just freeze up when trying. But the good news for me was being able to save all that precious (to me) data, including resumes, tax information, and a huge number of MP3s I had purchased over at least 15 or more years with plenty of music I still listen to often! I give props to people trying to help even if what works for others may not have worked for me. In my case, the recovery software was the way to at least save nearly all the information, and I'm still very thankful nearly a half a year later! 8)
@@Rushtallica
Thank you so much for responding!! I haven't checked out the program you mentioned, but I'll definitely give it a shot. This raw code is just making it inaccessible 😵 it seems as though I have to format the card and then attempt to recover all of my photos and videos 😭
@@EveryonesADude You're welcome. Yeah, I think this is the site I downloaded from originally. It's worth checking out IMO, and I think I may have looked up a RUclips video about it before using it, too. Hopefully you'll get everything back! : www.ccleaner.com/recuva
Hey! Huge kudos and thank you for this video, saved my friends data! Didnt even need to give permissions. Now I can back it all up from that old hard drive to their new ssd.
thanks. it wotking in my computers. GBU
Lifesaver. After hrs of searching on google which leads to nothing but ads to buy recovery software I tried this and was going within minutes. Possibly helps to run CMD as administrator.
Not work for m3..when chkdsk show notice "the type of the file system is raw"
"chkdsk is not available for raw drives"
Same here
Great and simple walkthrough! Worked 100% on a raw external HDD with no data loss. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks it's working
oh gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it really works on my sony external hard disk..... i have tried so many methods shown on youtube but none of them works....... thank u very much guyzzzzzzzzzzzz..... really thanks...... u have saved my valuble data.......
thanks, it worked
You're welcome
How Didn't work on me in safemode how please :(
It worked. I have a 2 TB HDD Passport. Search many solutions on the internet and youtube before but none of them worked. My problem is when i plug my harddisk, there is a notif sound, it appears on my computer but cannot open. Then i open disk management, It says RAW file format. I follow your instruction by typing chkdsk /f H: because my disk name is H. Then i tried to opn it and it worked on the first step. I didnt follow the next step because the first step has shown a result. Thank you. You are my savior.
2018, May. (on windows 10 pro) Lenovo z570.
Thanks a lot man. Now I''m able to access my WD 2 TB external HDD after it was after it became RAW partition when it was unplugged accidentally. I was able to open my HDD just after the first step 'ckhdsk' cmd prompt. Though I know that I can recover my data, If I didn't know this method, I would have to invest around 9,000 INR to get another HDD to save the recovered files. You saved my money and helped me stay cool. Thank You!!! (btw I liked ur video)
It says '' unable to determine volume version and state. chkdsk aborted''
Run cmd as administrator
this is one good video, thanks. it helped me recover drives that weren't picking up
These is not of help. Microsoft Chkdsk not work for RAW
i had the same problem i changed my laptop that i was working on and it was saying the same and tried to attach my raw external hard disk to another pc and it works for me to do chkdsk and i am now recovering data with m3data recovry app .. try to change ur pc it self .. try on another one .. or another version of windows
You ROCK! Thank you!!!! Situation: Hard Drive somehow went "RAW" after plugging into a windows 10 computer, which failed to read the hard drive. Connected back to windows 7, follows this guy/girl's instructions and successfully repaired the corrupt MFT. " chkdsk /f F: " worked correctly without a problem. Didn't even need to change permissions. After the CMD screen performed the repair, the external drive showed up on auto play and was able to access immediately. Cheers!
its Says
the type of file system is ntfs unable to determine volume version and state chkdsk aborted. i dnt know how to fix Plz help me plz
I got the same thing. Did you find any solution. Let me know
thank you very much, I've been researching for 1 month, there's no program I haven't tried, but I watched your video in the first step👍🏻
It is not possible to run chkdsk command on a Raw Disk even safe mode. This video is fake!
Explain that how can it! I think you mention that "it is impossible to run chkdsk on a RAW Disk."
"no it is not impossible" means that "it is possible" :)
bro u should rlly learn english damn
@DBZ Hindi Sorry this reply is very late, but you can run the chkdsk as Administrator. My entire external drive was changed to RAW format. I downloaded and used a program called Recuva to recover the files I felt most important before trying to follow this video. After using that program. Then I followed this video and typed cmd in the search, then right-clicked, and chose to 'run as administrator.' Then I put in the chkdsk f/ H: (which is the drive of mine that's not working). Then it's starting to do the process under Stage 1: Examining the basic file system structure...
So far many files are being read, but many also say 'File record segment is unreadable.' It may be because those are the ones I recovered already with the Recufa software. I'll have to wait until the process is finished to know for sure.
Genius!! This actually works. Saved all my files unlike some videos on here telling people to format their drives to turn them back from RAW. THANKYOU!
lair!!! he changed the drive in th time 1:15 the file system is different!! it is ntfs... big dislike
Great awesome...i saved my 500gb from 1tb Seagate hd... Thanks bro.... please keep it up...
my hdd fully recover just with step 1 thank you so much!
if your chkdsk not work, run cmd as administrator
Your a life saver. Been trying everything, that final step of adding Authenticated Users did the trick. Thanks alot
I spent 2 days trying to get my files back on my HDD after accidentally deleting the volume. I tried more than a dozen programs all without any success and then stumbled across this video after wondering if it was possible to just convert a RAW disk to NTFS took me all of 10 seconds to recover all of my data. Tip for anyone having trouble is to make sure that the disk is NOT shown as unallocated in the disk management utility on windows as that is not the same as RAW (you need to right click on the unallocated disk in the disk management utility and select to create new simple volume and DO NOT FORMAT).
Tysm, I haven't thought about doing a chkdsk before doing anything else on my HDD (I only ran some checks and searched for a tutorial until I found yours), I found out that the partition switched to RAW by itself and froze my whole server (it's fine it's a personnal server running Windows Server 2019) and everytime I unplugged it my server would freeze, I did a chkdsk /f and it fixed the problem (did it on my main Windows 11 PC because I was checking if it was working on this PC). I didn't need to edit the permissions to get access to its data. 😄
can you tell me what did you do
guess what? I've been stressed out since last night because all of a sudden I couldn't access my external drive. I've read many articles and websites on internet and nothing happened, I've downloaded recovery apps too but nah
THANK GOD I FOUND YOUR VIDEO!! MY FILES ARE BACK! IT'S 700GB MAN!! AND IT'S NOT JUST MY FILES SO I'M SCARED TO DEATH WHAT IF I LOST THEM!?
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! GOD BLESS YOU MAN!!
worked for me, I did not have to go for the 'step-2' - THANKS !!
I was skeptical with all your flailing around and confusion but It dit work great. It only took a minute in safe mode, chkdsk /f and nothing further. Thank you for the video, it saved me tons of money and time :)
Hi There Your Video saved me from installing unnecessary software and I managed to recover my 300GB partition which had become RAW accidentally and it system was prompting me to format the drive to recover the partition. All my Data is intact. Thanks your video was great help.
thanks man I'm thinking about to format my disk but you saved me you save all of my childhood memories thank you so much
Damm you saved my data of past 2000. I never formatted my drive thought it was corrupted finally now in 2022 I was able to access my drive with your method, it was just a random trial and I hoped let try once before I format drive. Thankyou so much Bro ☺️😊❤️✅
Men; just with chkdsk i had my 2TB external drive back to life. men, you are a Super hero to me.
Sir, you just saved my 125GB partition. Great Thanks
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wow! it works for me. my ex-hdd become RAW & i just open "cmd" & type "chkdsk /f __:". I got everything back. Thanks, Admin.
Thankyou for saving 20yrs of memories. it worked on the first try
Thank you so much man!! I nearly had a heart attack.. I was not able to access the device as I accidentally disconnected the device while something was copying. Glad I came across this video otherwise have been relying on really long route of recovering and formatting. Fortunately I didn't face any issues shown in the video after the Chksk command is complete.
You are a genius mate...worked like a charm for me and didn't have to boot in safe mode...didn't even need to do the permissions thing either...thank you very much
Thanks a lot, it worked on Windows 10 Repair Cmd. I've got my windows system error after unplugged my ssd and replugged it. I tried to recovery and auto repair through windows installation but no effort came up with any result. After checking diskpart list volume, I found that my system partition's letter has changed to :E letter and Raw format. Then I found your video. Greatly helpful
This worked perfectly fine for me... Thank you very much for the video.
The partition went raw and all the software over the internet were paid... having such a fix was a blessing :)
You're Welcome Friend
Man thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Much
You saved my life
Very useful video for me, my disk is recovery.... thank you very so much.... keep going this type of videos....
Because of you I save my money and DATA Too. Thank you so much, I'm really appreciate from bottom of my heart
Thank you so much! still working.. May 3 2021! SALUTE!
Works magically for me just by doing the first step. Thank you so much for your help... God bless you.... you deserved to be applauded.. take care
Worked like a charm (Y). Thanks mate for sharing such a helpful Fix.
Step 1 was enough in my Case. Disk mounted perfectly without any Data loss!!
Thanks alot.
Also, thank you so much Takis, in the past I just accepted the loss as soon as a drive appeared as RAW after first time... so glad I found your video. Never knew it could be incorrect and chkdsk detect NTFS
For those with entire drives listed as RAW, you can run the chkdsk as Administrator. My entire external drive had been changed to RAW format. I think it happened when I had my external USB drive plugged in while running CCleaner. Afterward I hadn't been able to access that drive at all, and it'd get stuck when I tried. I downloaded and used a program called Recuva to recover the files I felt most important before trying to follow this video. After using that program, I then followed this video and typed cmd in the search, then right-clicked, and chose to 'run as administrator.' Then I put in the chkdsk f/ H: (which is the drive of mine that's not working). Then it's starting to do the process under Stage 1: Examining the basic file system structure...
So far many files are being read, but many also say 'File record segment is unreadable.' It may be because those are the ones I recovered already with the Recuva software. I'll have to wait until the process is finished to know for sure. And that looks like it's going to take a number of hours...
Did you end up being successful? I am still on step 1. Many files say "File record segment is unreadable" also. Think mine will take hours and hours because it is at 34400 out of 219392 files. My external hard drive is a Passport WD 2TB, and is almost full. Hope it works!
I have never wanted to subscribe a million times to someone. THANK YOU!
Thank you so much and thanks thanks thanks thanks really you are the technical computer really you are the meaning of the solution you saved all my life thank you so so so much
Thank you so much! My HDD fixed just after running the given command in command prompt. I am able to acess my data without any other process you showed after command.
Step 1 already worked for me on my 200GB microSD card!
Thanks
Thank you so much!!!!! My data were recovered! Omg I can’t tell u how much I’m thankful!! All my research data were inside my external hard disk. Thank you so so so so much!!!!!
it worked bro... great job... i recovered all my data from my harddisk... shared this video will my frnds too
Today you are my favourite person in Earth, Really!
After doing cmd command the raw file was fixed and I recovered 935gb of data . THANK YOU
This is an awesome solution! 2018 on Win 10 it works! I 32GB pendrive got stuck with RAW and I followed the steps according tot his video and it worked!! Thanks for the upload!
Well this worked on the first command, it did a quick scan / fix and listed a few folders I was working with when the drive crapped out. It then mounted after this and I'm backing this thing up asap... ALWAYS EJECT your drives safely, and when you first get "errors detected on this drive'' always back it up. I had no luck pulling up any kind of partition in TestDisk but this Chkdsk worked. Thanks.
This video is working ! AWSM bro thanks. I was tried many videos bhut they not worked and this one worked only in 1st step after command my hardisk automatically opened .Thankyou!!!
Thanks a ton...
I recovered 2TB data with in a minute...
Thank you.. Thank you... Thank you...
Thank you ! Works on win 10 (19042) Dec 2020 ! Recuva recovered something that was actually deleted but did not display any files that ware there (when drive was raw). Was able though to show me that there are 16500 files on drive. Thanks again !!
Hi Bro, I really dont know how to thank you.
My 2TB HDD showed the same error and it has so much of important data.
You video helped me recovering HDD without any data loss...Thank you very much...Thank you just not enough...God bless you
I would like to say thank you so much. I've been trying many tutorials and just here I can reach my external HDD again! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much ! Everything was resolved as soon as I did the first step with the dskcheck. So happy that I didn't use years worth of work
Thank you so much. I had spent a lot of hours to try other tools but still not working. This is quick and it worked!
You're Welcome Kathryn S :)
I can't believe it worked ,thank you soo much step 1 work for me ,and I got all my files back
The best and most simplest guide .... really a great help for solving the RAW disk error....