HDD RAW Fix Partition with 2 step Without Software and no loss Data 

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

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

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

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!!!

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! 🤣

hats off!! YOU have saved my 13 years of memories.... such a lifesaver you are!!

I Open CMD Typ: Chkdsk /f D: Error: CHKSDK is not avaible for RAW drives.

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..

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!

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 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 a Family Pictures SAVER!! THANKS DUDE!

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.

Thanks a lot, my HDD is working fine after sckdsk & recover all my IMP Data, successfully work

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!

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!

Thank you so much brother, I was so close to format my External HDD, god bless you

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.

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?

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.

it says CHKDSK is not available for rAW drives. can't continue....

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.

Thank you, thank you so much. Let this be a lesson, back up your important files lads

Saved My 5tb Data just in 2 minutes (No Format no Recovery no External Software) just a simple command wow.... Hatts Off from Pakistan

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?

thanks...this helped me...i cant open my partition for 7 years and now all my data recovered..thanks infinitilion again

this was not RAW....chkdsk is not available for RAW drives. What now?

Merci beaucoup. Vous m'avez été très utile au début, puis tout s'est embrouillé. Alors j'ai changé de procédure autre que la votre. J'ai tout simplement identifié mon nom d'administrateur que j'ai trouvé qu'il n'était conforme avec celui paru dans la fenêtre que j'ai seulement changé et le problème était réglé et le disque D est apparu normalement et j'ai pu accéder a mes fichiers. Merci encore une fois...Thank you.

It says '' unable to determine volume version and state. chkdsk aborted''

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)

Not work for m3..when chkdsk show notice "the type of the file system is raw" "chkdsk is not available for raw drives"

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...

i start i safe mode but still it says chkdks is not available for raw?? please help me

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).

thanks. it wotking in my computers. GBU

Really awesome...with one comment you have fixed my Hard disk without losing the data...Thanks

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

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.

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!

These is not of help. Microsoft Chkdsk not work for RAW

Great and simple walkthrough! Worked 100% on a raw external HDD with no data loss. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks it's​ working

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👍🏻

thanks, it worked

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 ☺️😊❤️✅

It is not possible to run chkdsk command on a Raw Disk even safe mode. This video is fake!

Worked fine on Windows 11 in 2023. Thank you!

lair!!! he changed the drive in th time 1:15 the file system is different!! it is ntfs... big dislike

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. 😄

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!

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!!!!!!!!

wow cannot thank you enough, i had 1T of very rare documents that took me ages to scan. got them all back! bless you.

With your videos my learning curve will shrink drastically. Thank you.

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!!

Thank you so much! still working.. May 3 2021! SALUTE!

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

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.

this is one good video, thanks. it helped me recover drives that weren't picking up

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 :)

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

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 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.

my hdd fully recover just with step 1 thank you so much! if your chkdsk not work, run cmd as administrator

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 :)

Man thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Much You saved my life

Your a life saver. Been trying everything, that final step of adding Authenticated Users did the trick. Thanks alot

worked for me, I did not have to go for the 'step-2' - THANKS !!

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.

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.

wow! it works for me. my ex-hdd become RAW & i just open "cmd" & type "chkdsk /f __:". I got everything back. Thanks, Admin.

Previously I used the Mounty application to move files from my Mac to my external hard drive, and accidentally the hard drive cable was disconnected from the Mac, when I tried again the second partition of my hard drive became raw, and the folder on partition 1 was corrupted. then I run the command in this video, finally everything works normally again. thanks

Because of you I save my money and DATA Too. Thank you so much, I'm really appreciate from bottom of my heart

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.

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

Great awesome...i saved my 500gb from 1tb Seagate hd... Thanks bro.... please keep it up...

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 !!

Men; just with chkdsk i had my 2TB external drive back to life. men, you are a Super hero to me.

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

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

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.......

great. The following Simple step worked for me Cmd run as administrator chkdsk /f f: after this it was opening Thanks a lot

Thankyou for saving 20yrs of memories. it worked on the first try

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

After doing cmd command the raw file was fixed and I recovered 935gb of data . THANK YOU

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!!!

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!

Much thanks boss 🙏🏽 u really saved me, I watched many videos but non helped me...dey wer all talking about formatting and later using a recovery software which u can’t even get all your files but wit your solution I got everything back 🔥

Thanks! Also worked using Powershell as adm and CHKDSK /F diskletter: There was no need to fix properties/security as they were ok. The disk is probably broken, but at least I'm now able to backup what I need.

THANKS A LOT, YOU SAVED MY LIFE... accidentally I delete volume and I couldn´t acces to the external disk info anymore, I tried withed severals recovery softwares and no worked, after follow this steps, problem was solved... THAAAANKS!!!!!

Very useful video for me, my disk is recovery.... thank you very so much.... keep going this type of videos....

You spared my life from being beaten by my brother! Thanks a lot.

HOLY SHIT THANK YOU SO MUCH. my 1,8TB drive was turned to RAW format. this works for the issue!

Thanks . This really works. I recovered 1.2 TB of data from my corrupted WD elements HD. CHKDSK works for RAW DRIVES , just like mine. Big relief. Thank you TAKIS. God bless you

Sir, you just saved my 125GB partition. Great Thanks I'm subscribing

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

After 14 hours of trying and researching I finally fix it only with first step. Thank you so much!!

GREAT TUTORIAL , but if you don't see disk in windows explorer try in disk disk management select disc / right mouse /change drive letter /chose free leter and start every step in this tutorial . Sorry for my English . Jeśli nie widzisz dysku : Komputer / ppm /zarządzaj komputerem/ zarządzanie dyskami wybrać interesujący dysk / ppm /zmień literę dysku i ścieżki i wybierz wolna literę . ENTER i można krok po kroku korzystac z poradnika . Pozdrawiam