How to Change RAW Hard Drive to NTFS or FAT32 without Formatting?

Why Does Hard Drive Change File System from NTFS or FAT32 to RAW?

A hard drive is usually divided into several partitions on computer, which makes it convenient for computer users to store data. When users save data to different partitions, they can easily find out the files they want. Usually, those partitions are shown as NTFS or FAT32 file type. However, the partition might be changed to RAW file system due to some causes. Do you know why a partition changes its file type from NTFS or FAT32 to RAW?

Flash Drive Has RAW File System: Converting Flash Drive from RAW to FAT32

FAQS on Flash Drive RAW

When a flash drive is shown as RAW drive, different users have different needs. Some users may only want to fix the raw problem because they don’t care about the data inside. However, some users may need to restore data from the RAW drive and they don’t care if the flash drive can still be used in the future. Of course, some users would also like to repair flash drive RAW error as well as getting back lost files. Therefore, according different needs, users have come up with different questions on flash drive RAW.

RAW SD Card Recovery: Convert SD Card to FAT32 from RAW File System

SD card RAW problem occurs quite frequently due to lots of reasons. If an SD card has RAW file system, you may run in to big trouble. For example, you may not be able to access data on the SD memory card. You may not be able to writ other data to the SD card. Even if you can open the SD card, you may find it shown as empty one. You can buy a new SD card instead of the RAW one, but you cannot buy the unique data on the card.

Convert RAW to FAT32 NTFS

Users That Need to Convert RAW to FAT32 or NTFS and Solutions

1. I have a 2GB flash drive that its file system was FAT32 before, but now it is RAW. When I insert this flash drive to my computer, it can be detected by my computer but its capacity has only 8MB. How can I convert the RAW to its original file system FAT32? By the way, I have many important data inside the flash drive; can I reuse the data after converting RAW to FAT32?

Solution: Usually you can convert RAW to FAT32 by formatting or some converting tools. If you still want to reuse the data inside the flash drive, you should perform data recovery before converting.