What Does “CHKDSK is Not Available for RAW Drives” Mean? 

There's a reason why CHKDSK can’t do what you’re asking.

i thought this guy gonna teach , until i saw he saying ,use data recovery and facepalmed myself

I've been working in this field for quite a while now and followed all of your steps before watching this video. So that did confirm that I didn't lose touch with the basics. Also, I love your metaphor and you paint a very vivid picture with it.

Thank you very much, your video was the only one helpful out of all videos I tried. My problem was solved by using different USB slot

More people should see this instead of that crap that Wondershare has regarding RAW drives.

There seems to be a bug with chkdsk in Windows 7. I have a USB stick that was formatted by a CCTV DVR, chkdsk fails with RAW error, but selecting properties -> tools-> error-checking correctly recognizes it as FAT32, and can check & scan the drive. Weird!

Getdataback often works, but usb is so much more prone to this corruption than internal connections its just obnoxious when it happens.

Im having a similar issue. My desktop crashed and im trying to get files off the ssd drive, but when i put it on my win 11 laptop it shows the partitions but no data bars. When i go into the drive manager it shows the partitions are raw.

I ran chkdsk on my 2nd hdd and it ran for hours. It gave an error and now that drive freezes when i boot my pc. And it isnt just D anymore, its now D,E:

Hi! my new external hard drive keeps on being corrupted of some sort. It gives says I need to reformat first and when I used the CHKDSK cmd it shows that its RAW. I already transferred more than 68 GB of data and after a few days sometimes hours it gets corrupted. I already used 2 different external hard drives and I still have the issue. Could it be my computer who's causing the problem and if so can you please recommend some solution? thank you!

Mine is cannot even format...

The type of the file system is NTFS. The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt. Reading second NTFS boot sector instead. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted. Sir What does it mean? I can't open the disk drive.......

Sir My problem in My memory card is not working. I'm very Sade

so rip to my 1000gb of data ? 🤦

Anazbg explanation sir 👍

Raw drive SSD how to format

how i can recover data from a disk with this type of problem ?

All I wanted to know was how to format a RAW 128gb ds card!

What causes it?

Hey Leo one more question does buying a new windows key and installing it remove the virus on my current windows also I will formmat it first before I install a new windows 10

I do not like my drives -- or my steaks -- RAW! 👍

Thats 10 mins. I'll never get back....thanks for nothing...😡😡😡😡