In fact, you are not the only one troubled by this issue.

But, some of them are needed this Friday.

But what if theRAW driveis saving useful files, such as precious photos, movies, and music songs?

sd card becomes raw

Step 1:Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard and clickData Recoveryfeature to continue.

snag the RAW SD card or RAW external hard drive and clickScanto continue.

Then check the files you need and clickSaveto continue.

the disk is write protected

Step 4:Select a target disk to save the files you want to keep.

wise to save the files to another drive.

Otherwise, the lost data will beoverwritten.

select the RAW drive and click Scan to continue

After you have finished all steps, you have successfully recovered all your lost files.

Get MiniTool Partition Wizard to have a try.

I used this tool to effectively and quickly recover data from RAW SD card.

check the files you need and click Save to continue

Solution 1:Connect your SD card to computer usingcard readerif it is connected via computer built-in slot.

Or connect it using your phone, digital camera, and other portable devices as card reader.

Solution 3:Plug it to another computer to see whether it is accessible.

save the lost files

Solution 4:Assign it adrive letterin Disk Management if it doesnt have one.

Solution 5:Uninstall driver of SD card.

Go toDevice Manager, locate the SD card, right click it, and chooseUninstall.

How to Recover Data from RAW File System/RAW Partition/RAW Drive

Then, cycle your rig and reconnect the SD card to see whether it works.

Solution 6:Dopartition recoverywith MiniTool Partition Wizard.

Sometimes, your RAW SD card might show as unallocated in MiniTool Partition Wizard but RAW in Disk Management.

choose Partition Recovery to continue

Step 2:Then, launch it to get its main interface.

choose the target SD card and click onPartition Recoveryfrom the context menu to continue.

Step 3:Set scanning range for the specified disk, and here we chooseFull Disk.Then clickNext.

choose a scanning range

Step 4:SelectQuick Scanand clickNext.

Then, check it.

If you have more one partition, hey check all partitions including the existing one and lost one.

choose scanning methods

But what if MiniTool Partition Wizard shows the SD card as a normal partition?

like try the following solution.

Solution 7:check and fix filesystem errorswith MiniTool Partition Wizard.

check all partitions and click Finish to continue

When SD card turned into RAW, probably there are some file system errors on the SD card.

Thus, you might check and fix the errors with MiniTool Partition Wizard.

Then, chooseCheck & fix detected errorsand clickStart.

assign drive letter and click Apply to continue

Nevertheless, there are cases where MiniTool Partition Wizard fails to convert RAW to NTFS or FAT32 format.

Under this situation, it’s crucial that you runchkdsk.exe.

Solution 8:repair RAW SD card using chkdsk.exe in CMD or Computer.

click check and fix detected errors

you’ve got the option to run CHKDSK.exe in either CMD or Computer.

If not, change J to the letter of your own RAW SD card.

However, in most cases, you will get the error CHKDSK is not available for RAW drive.

type the command

Well then,How to repair raw SD card using CMD?

c’mon try other methods.

In Computer or My Computer:

Right nudge the SD card inComputerorMy Computer, selectProperties, and chooseCheckunderToolstab.

Then, Windows will check and fix errors it detected.

Solution 9:Recover or rebuild boot sector or fix FAT/MFT of your SD card.

For detailed steps, you’re free to refer toAdvanced FAT RepairorAdvanced NTFS Boot and MFT Repair.

After recovery or rebuild, your SD would be converted to NTFS or FAT32 from RAW.

And we suggest sending it to repair if it is worth repairing.

Bottom Line

SD card turned into RAW?

Just choose the most appropriate one to convert raw SD card to FAT32/NTFS by considering your own situation.