The SD card becomes RAW and the Windows asks you to format the SD card. What to do? Here are the solutions to format an SD card without losing data. Even your SD card becomes RAW or gets corrupted/damaged, you can still format the SD card by following the details below.
My SD card shows that there is a RAW file system on my camera. When I insert it to my laptop, an error message pops up saying "Micro sd card is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" But the thing is I don't want to lose my photos on the SD card. How can I convert RAW to NTFS or fat 32 without losing SD card files?
Here's a video tutorial on converting the RAW file system to NTFS and how to recover data from a RAW system. Watch the guide and fix your RAW SD card.
SD cards are a popular storage device that is commonly used in digital cameras, mobile phones, and camcorders. Sometimes the card becomes RAW and inaccessible due to certain reasons:
When you are faced with this error, Windows often asks you to format your devices. But this operation causes data loss too. How to format the RAW drive and keep your data safe. Here is the solution: recover data from the RAW SD card. Then format the SD card.
The hard drive which has not been formatted by the NT file system, such as FAT and NTFS, is called the RAW hard drive. When your drive becomes RAW, you cannot access it. Meanwhile, its capacity used space, and unused space will all be shown as "zero". That is to say, all data originally saved in that "RAW" disk are lost. You can neither see them nor transfer them to a safe place for further use.
But a third-party data recovery program can access this RAW drive and get back data before formatting. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is an ideal choice for recovering RAW drive data. It's fully compatible with all Windows and macOS. What's more, it allows users to restore data from an SD card, USB drive, HDD, etc.
The process just takes a few simple steps.
Step 1. Select the SD card to scan
Step 2. Check for scan results
Step 3. Recover SD card data
If the data recovery software failed to restore RAW files, you still have a good chance of retrieving the data by using EaseUS RAW recovery services.
Consult with EaseUS data recovery experts for one-on-one manual recovery service. We could offer the following services after FREE diagnosis:
After restoring data from the RAW SD card, you can now format the RAW SD card to NTFS or FAT32 without losing data:
Step 1. Insert your SD card into a card reader and connect the card reader to your computer.
Step 2. Right-click "This PC", choose "Manage", enter "Disk Management".
Step 3. Locate and right-click on your SD card, choose "Format".
Step 4. Click "Yes" to continue, set a new label, file system - exFAT, FAT32, or NTFS to the card. Then click "OK" to format your SD card.
Here, we recommend a third-party free partition manager. It is totally free for SD card formatting. What's more, it is pretty easy and fast. To format SD cards in Windows 10 and all other operating systems, simply download and install the free partition manager on PC.
Details: How to format an SD Card
Take preventive measures before anything happens to you. If you have a backup of your SD card, you don't have to worry about the data loss problem. And backup can be one of the best ways to prevent data loss.
To back up files in advance, you need free file backup software. Here, EaseUS Todo Backup is my suggestion. With it, you can create a file backup. And you can enjoy more useful features during the process. You can set a schedule to back up files daily, weekly, or monthly. Besides, you can enjoy other features like disk clone, partition clone or system clone, and more.
Step 1. For the first time you use EaseUS Todo Backup to back up files, click Create backup on the home screen and then mouse click the big question mark to select backup contents.
Step 2. Since you're going to back up files and folders on your computer, go on with the "File" backup mode, where you can select pictures, videos, documents and all other types of files to back up.
Step 3. Follow the paths to locate the files, folders or directories you want to back up, select them all and click "OK".
Step 4. Now you need to select a backup location to save and retain the backup.
Step 5. EaseUS Todo Backup allows users to save the backup files to every device that is handy for you, like a local hard drive, external USB drive, SD card, network drive, or a NAS drive, plus a cloud drive of the EaseUS brand. We personally recommend users to choose the cloud drive prior to a physical drive to save important backups due to the greater accessibility, flexibility and safety.
To be able to access to EaseUS cloud, all you need is an email registration and login.
Step 6. If you're interested in an automatic and intelligent backup schedule for the next file backup task, go on with the "Options" setting. There you can encrypt a confidential file backup, compress the backup image size, or customize a backup scheme to tell the software in what time to start the next backup.
Customize an advanced and automatic backup task here:
Step 7. Click "Backup Now" to start the file backup process. Your completed backup files are visible on the left area in a card style.
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