Raw drive recovery is recovering files from hard drives, SSDs, USB drives, and other storage media that Windows recognizes as formatted with a RAW file system. This issue can arise due to corruption of the file system or the partitioning***rmation, or the way the device was ejected, or even if there are bad sectors present on the drive. Once the drive turns RAW, Windows will prompt the user to format the drive in order to use the data contained on the disk. Formatting the drive right away reduces the probability of successful recovery. The first thing to do is verify that the drive is connected and not being written to anymore.