Recover files from the hard drive with unrecognized file system

Updated on March 20, 2022

When your Drive or Volume does not recognize the file system, it is usually called a RAW drive. Without a file system, you will not be able to access data on your hard drive and display no file system. This doesn’t mean your data is lost, recover all your important data without having to format the drive using the most recommended hard drive recovery tool.


The volume does not recognize the file system is the most common error seen on hard drives. Most of you must have experienced the file system is not being recognized and your drive goes inaccessible. The error hard drive with unrecognized file system occurs not only on internal drives but also, external devices such as external hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards.

The hard drive with no file system:

A hard drive with no file system means that your drive does not have the organizational structure that is required for read/ write access of the files. You might encounter various errors when dealing with hard drives with no file system or you can’t see files on the hard drive. Few of the errors that stop you accessing the data from hard drive is listed here-

Note: To access any RAW partition, it has to be converted into NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, or other file system. In order to avoid data getting lost from the RAW partition it is suggested to recover your data first and then perform converting the raw file system into the desired format.

How to Fix When the Volume Does Not Recognize File System?

The most effective way to fix the hard drive with no file system or unrecognized file system is to format the drive. Fix and repair disk with 'the volume does not contain recognized file system' error:

  1. • Right-click This PC/My Computer > Manage > Disk Management
  2. • Right-click on the RAW drive, USB, SD card... > Format Volume > Reset File System (NTFS/FAT32, etc.) and rename the device;
  3. • Click Finish to complete 'the volume does not contain a recognized file system' error repair process on storage devices.

With the help of the above steps, you can easily convert the drive from RAW to NTFS or any other file system and fix the error. However, formatting erases all the data from the drive.

SFWare Partition Recovery Utility is designed with advanced scanning technology. It completely scans the drive and allows you to restore files from the hard drive with an unrecognized file system. Recover your important data from the RAW hard drive.

How to recover data from the drive with unrecognized file system

SFWare Partition Recovery is the most important choice for you to retrieve files from a hard drive with no file system. The tool allows you to recover various files from a hard drive with no file system that includes documents, photos, videos and others. With the advantage of its easy user friendly interface and safe recovery methods, you can restore files from a hard drive with no file system with utmost ease.

SFWare Partition Recovery Utility is designed with advanced scanning technology. It completely scans the drive and allows you to restore files from the hard drive with an unrecognized file system. Recover your important data from the RAW hard drive.

Steps to recover data from hard drive with no file system error

Download and Install the SFWare Partition Recovery Software. Launch the application.

SFWare Tool not only recovers data from hard drive with no file system, but also helps in recovering files from external storage devices like USB drive, memory card, FireWire drives, etc which does not have file system. Also, can easily restore files from all types of hard drive interfaces like SATA, SCSI, SAS, etc.


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