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This How.com.vn teaches you how to recover RAW data on a hard drive on a Windows or Mac computer. A hard drive that displays files as RAW means the computer cannot properly read it as they drive may have become corrupted. Usually, the only way to fix this is to erase and reformat the drive completely, but you can first try to recover some of the data using data recovery software. If the data on the hard drive is important or irreplaceable, take the hard drive to a professional data service right away.
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Take the hard drive to a professional recovery service. Before you do anything to the drive, if the data on the hard drive is important or irreplaceable, it's best to stop using it immediately and take it to a professional data recovery service. Data recovery is extremely difficult and best left to professionals. Do a Google search for data recovery services in your area or send your drive away to various online data recovery companies.- Make sure you do some research to ensure the company you use is qualified and well reviewed.
Go to https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery-software in a web browser. You can use any web browser on your computer to go to the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard download page.Advertisement
Select your operating system. If you are using a PC, click the "For Windows" tab at the top of the page, or if you are using a Mac, click the "For Mac" tab.
Click Download. The blue button that says "Download" will download the free version of Data Recovery Wizard.- The Free version will allow you to recover up to 2GBs of data—if you need to recover more than 2GBs of data, you'll need to upgrade to the paid Pro version. It's best to use the free version first to see if your files can be recovered before you purchase anything.
Install Data Recovery Wizard. After the install file is finished downloading, double-click it to begin the installation. Follow the prompts and instructions in the install wizard to install Data Recovery Wizard.- On some versions of macOS, you may need to allow the installation first and then enter your Administrator password.
Open the Data Recovery Wizard. It's the blue app with the white outline of a doctor's medical bag. On Windows, it's located in the apps section of the Start menu, and on Mac, it's in the Applications folder.
Select the hard drive with the RAW files. Once Data Recovery Wizard launches, you will see a list of all your drives. Select the raw drive that you want to recover data from. Data Recovery Wizard can recover data from any hard drive, hard drive partition, external hard drive, Flash drive, or SD card.
Click Scan. It's the orange button at the bottom of the Data Recovery Wizard app. First, it will perform a quick scan, followed by a deep scan to find ever more files.- Depending on the size of the drive, this process can take several hours up to an entire day to complete.
Select the files you want to recover. Click the checkbox for each file that is found on the drive that you want to recover. You can preview the found data by clicking the tabs at the top of the app.
Click Recover. It's the orange button in the lower-right corner of the Data Recovery Wizard app. This will open a file browser window.
Select a safe folder and click Ok. Use the browser window to select a location to save the recovered data to. Make sure the folder you select is on a safe, non-RAW and uncorrupted hard drive.- Once you have recovered all the data you needed, you can reformat the hard drive or partition.
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