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Do not run CHKDSK on it at all. First of all we need to find out why and how did it change to RAW. <br />
Please shed some light on this step - how did it happen? <br />
To recover data from the partition try using Recuva on it <a href="http://www.recuva.com" rel="ugc">www.recuva.com</a>&nbsp;<br />
It is free. <br />
Also you can recover data from such partitions using Volume Explorer tool from Paragon products <a href="http://www.paragon-software.com" rel="ugc">www.paragon-software.com</a>&nbsp;(trial version for Backup &amp;&nbsp;Recovery Home will work fine).
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Do not run CHKDSK on it at all. First of all we need to find out why and how did it change to RAW.
Please shed some light on this step - how did it happen?
To recover data from the partition try using Recuva on it www.recuva.com [http://www.recuva.com] 
It is free.
Also you can recover data from such partitions using Volume Explorer tool from Paragon products www.paragon-software.com [http://www.paragon-software.com] (trial version for Backup & Recovery Home will work fine).

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Not gonna happen.<br />
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If you have an external drive USB case and this is the issue,then attach the drive directly to a drive port on your system.<br />
If that doesn't work,download a product called Getdataback for ntfs from <a href="http://www.runtime.org" rel="ugc">www.runtime.org</a>&nbsp;and see if your files are recoverable.
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Not gonna happen.

If you have an external drive USB case and this is the issue,then attach the drive directly to a drive port on your system.
If that doesn't work,download a product called Getdataback for ntfs from www.runtime.org [http://www.runtime.org] and see if your files are recoverable.

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how to recover data of a harddisk which has data with FILE system changed to raw<br />
&nbsp;how to convert file system from raw to ntfs
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how to recover data of a harddisk which has data with FILE system changed to raw
 how to convert file system from raw to ntfs

Data recovery of RAW format partitions

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