The Volume Does not Contain a Recognized File System?

If you received "The volume does not contain a recognized file system" in USB/external hard drive/partition on your computer, don't worry. This article offers solutions to fix the issue. You can recover data from the RAW hard drive or inaccessible USB/external hard drive/SD card with Bitwar Data Recovery Software.

What is "The Volume Does Not Contain a Recognized File System"

During the use of the computer, many users may encounter the issue of "The Volume Does Not Contain a Recognized File System". And it occurs not only on the computer's hard drive, but also on external devices such as external hard drives, USB flash drives, and SD cards.

Now, we'd like to tell you the good news - this problem can be fixed and all data saved on the inaccessible drive can be recovered.

First, to avoid damaging important files lost by the storage device, we will show you how to recover data from a damaged disk or external device.

What is the RAW file system?

The file system on PC is used to manage how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, information stored on the storage device would be a mix of large amounts of data which will lead to inaccessible files. Information can be easily isolated and identified by dividing the data into sections and naming each one of them.

The structure and logic rules that used to manage the groups of information and their names is a file system. There are many different kinds of file systems, including FAT (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32), exFAT, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, ext2, ext3, VMFS, UDF, etc.

RAW is the default file system of CD-ROM recognized by the operating system. When burning DVD, you can see a RAW mode that extracts user data and subchannel data.

However, other storages such as hard drives and USB drives are formatted as FAT or NTFS. If storage devices become RAW, then it can't be accessed, as RAW is regarded as an error of file system. If you try to open RAW partition, you will get an error messages such as "You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it." 

Why does "The Volume Does Not Contain a Recognized File System" problem occur?

The following reasons could lead to file system unrecognized problem:

● reinstallation of system.

● getting attacked by virus.

● users' misapplication.

● abnormal shutdown of computer.

● file system conversion failure.

● accidental deletion of necessary system files.

● physical failures like bad sector.

● unstable or insufficient power supply.

The importance of recovering data in advance?

Before resolving "The volume does not contain a recognized file system" error, all you need to do is find a RAW drive recovery software to get back the files. Offering powerful and easy RAW recovery solutions, Bitwar Data Recovery allows you to recover lost data from the RAW drive directly, such as digital camera, hard drives, SD cards, Memory cards, phones, media players and portable drives. It can also recover audios, videos, pictures, archives, emails, and documents from these devices.

How to recover data from the raw partition?

Download and install Bitwar Data Recovery on your Windows, and then follow the guides to recover data from the volume does not contain a recognized file system (raw partition).

Step 1. Select the raw partition or device

Launch Bitwar Data Recovery software on your Windows. Select the raw partition or devices where you want to restore important data and click "Next".

Step 2: Select the Scan Mode

You can choose Quick Scan mode to recover lost files. If files are not overwritten by other data, files can be fully recovered.

If you cannot find files through Quick Scan, try DeepScan. Deep Scan will search every sector of the hard drive to find all existing files. But the scanning process spends more time and will not have the original file name in the scanning results.

If you perform the partition in a quick format, select Formatted Recovery on this step.

Let's try now!

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