

However, considering about the safety of the inner stored files, you’d better firstly try to retrieve them back off from this RAW drive with a RAW drive data recovery program in case that the formatting process makes everything worse.

So, you also can try to format this RAW drive to fix its RAW problem.

But, in most cases, it can be easily fixed by re-formatting. In fact, as I know, the RAW drive problems are often caused by many reasons, such as the improper operations, virus infections and even hard drive problems, etc.

Most drives are by default formatted with an NTFS file structure which is proprietary to Microsoft and many third party platforms do not wish to pay to use there file structure and will instead use FAT32 which is an open platform.OK! Don’t worry! In my personal experiences, you probably have chances to save your photos, videos and documents back. I would try to format the drive with a FAT32 file structure and then try to record that. Was the dirve formatted properly before plugging it into the tv and recording? If it was and now it not formatted then there is a chance that the TV could have formatted the drive to some proprietary file system used only by that tv and any specific recording devices the company wants used, although I find this highly unlikely as tv do not generally have the processing capabilities to format drives. What type and size is the drive? 3.5 in or 2.5 in? And what type of connection are you using? USB only? or USB and Power? The reason I ask is that USB ports are limited to 10w of power and most drives require more than that to properly operate. Some can be used with any USB drive, some can only be used with specific devices. So I understand you correctly your father had the drive plugged into to tv and recorded something and now you are trying to get those files off the drive and on to the pc?įirst thing is go to the manufactures web site and find the manual and read up on what the USB port is for.
