Here, you can free download RAW to NTFS converter: AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. It can help fix RAW file system on USB flash drive,SD memory card or other hard drives and format RAW drive to NTFS file system.
“Hello, I am having a Seagate external hard disk of capacity 4TB, with three partitions formatted to be NTFS previously. One week ago, one of the partitions suddenly turned into RAW format. While I cannot access any data stored in it. Or I cannot format the hard drive back to NTFS in Windows. So how do I restore this RAW partition to NTFS, or is there a professional RAW to NTFS converter I can use? Thanks!”
When a partition/hard drive becomes RAW format, which is not standard file system for operating system, you will be unable to access data inside it. So you might wonder why that happens? Usually, there are 4 main reasons.
1. There are bad sectors in the key area of the hard drive.
2. Format the external drive unsuccessfully.
3. The partition table of the drive is corrupted due to virus and malware attack, or the MBR of this hard drive is damaged.
4. If the access permission to the partition is configured improperly, which is related to local security policies, the partition will be given RAW format too, so as to restrain your access.
To fix RAW drive, the most effective way should be formatting it to a recognized file system like NTFS, FAT32, etc. But you may encounter some errors when you format a RAW drive: “The format did not complete successfully” in Disk Management and “Windows was unable to complete the format” in File Explorer. In such case, you can free download the RAW to NTFS converter: AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.
This freeware can force change RAW to NTFS, and other popular file systems like FAT32, exFAT, Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4 by reformatting it. But the formatting process will delete everything on the RAW drive, so it is advised to retrieve the data using certain data recovery software like Recoverit Pro and back up them to another location in advance.
Step 1. Free download, install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant to enter its main interface. Right-click the RAW drive (it might show unformatted here) and select “Format Partition”.
Step 2. In this window, select NTFS in the given file system list and click “OK”. You can also set partition label or change cluster size of this partition if necessary.
Step 3. Click “Apply” and “Proceed” to perform the formatting process.
Apart from free download third-party RAW to NTFS converter, Command Prompt is also a free yet useful tool to convert RAW to NTFS, follow the steps.
Step 1. Click the Search box, input “command prompt”, right click Command Prompt among listed results and choose “Run as administrator”
Step 2. In Command Prompt window, input “diskpart” and press “Enter” to run Diskpart utility.
Step 3. Type the commands in sequence and hit “Enter” after each command.
list disk
select disk n:n refers to the disk number of the RAW drive
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
Attention: if you meet the error “The parameter is incorrect”, you can run “chkdsk g: /f /r /x ” command to check and fix disk errors.
Although the RAW drive can be formatted to be NTFS successfully using CMD, it is a little bit complicated for users, especially the computer newbies, to operate. What’s worse, if you input the wrong disk number, you will lose important data.
As a great RAW to NTFS converter, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard makes formatting RAW drive to a recognizable file system as easy as possible. Moreover, it can also format corrupted or write protected USB flash drive/SD card/pen drive. For more advanced functions like recovering lost partitions, freely and easily extending system partition without data loss, migrating OS between GPT and MBR disks, etc, you can upgrade to Professional edition.