How do I Change a File from RAW to NTFS File System?
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About RAW Partition
Whenever a user adds New Hard Drive within Desktop and Laptop as a Storage device to add Files, documents, and applications, first need to create the partition on the Hard drive so that OS File and other application files can be installed.
Since New Hard Disk stores RAW Storage also knew Unformatted Space. That cannot use to stores files If the User tries to try to access the RAW Space Within System, get below error as space not allocated yet with File System.
In this section, we help you to fix to change a file from RAW to NTFS file system via Powershell Command only.
In Windows, while creating the partition the different File Systems used to manage information and Read, Write Purpose. You can also extend a Partition without Losing Data. FAT, ExFat, CDFS, NTFS File system used in the Windows Operating system.
You can see in the below image, the E Drive has RAW Space. Whereas D Drive has a CDFS File format and Local Drive has an NTFS File system.
Introduction of NTFS File System
The New Technology File System ( NTFS) for Windows Operating system offers more performance, recovery, compatibility and reliability, comparison to FAT, exFAT, and HPFS File system used and installed previously in Windows.
User Query
While searching solution for this question ” How do I change a file from RAW to NTFS? “, find that other user dealing with the same issue, Find some of the question found in a different format such as:
How Do I Change a File from RAW to NTFS?
Facing Issues Related with RAW space partition and don’t know how to convert in NTFS and another file system. To Convert RAW Hard Disk or Drive Space into NTFS File system, you can use Power shell command In the below section, we discussed steps for that:
PowerShell Command to Change RAW Space to NTFS File System
Yes, it is possible to Convert RAW space into the NTFS File system via Powershell command format for that, follow the below steps:
- Open Command Prompt, for that type “CMD”
- As you can see an image of “Disk Management”, where you can see that the Local Drive ( D) has RAW Partition and We need to Change into NTFS or other Filesystem so that we can use for storage purposes.
- Not Type “convert e drive: /fs:NTFS “ would convert drive E to the NTFS format. Here, E: Drive Name
- This Command helps to change a file from RAW to NTFS File format.
Convert RAW to NTFS using Diskpart Command Prompt
You can also try Diskpart Command prompt to change the RAW space in NTFS File system, please follow steps:
- Open CMD and Type diskpart to open ” Diskpart.exe” Command Prompt.
- Type “ List Disk” to know all disk types of the system.
- Now Select the Disk Number with Command Disk n, displays the Disk which stores RAW partition.
- Now use Command “Create Partition Primary”.
- Then use “active” to the active device.
- Not Type “format FS=NTFS Quick”.
Can I Perform RAW Hard Drive Data Recovery to Recover Back Data?
Yes, it is possible to recover data perfectly via SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Tool. An Advance Tool that not only supports RAW Format but other File system formats such as FAT, ExFAT and NTFS onWindows. Not Recover Data not only from Inter Drive but also you can recover data on External Hard Disk or Drive. It also displays deleted data in Red Color so that can be easily recognized.
How Tool Perform RAW Hard Drive Data Recovery?
If you are getting an error wIf you are getting an error while opening the desired drive such as “disk not formatted and do you want to format now” or you are unable to access the Desired Drive then use the Formatted Scan for RAW Data Recovery, please follow the given below steps for RAW Recovery. Install & Download Software from below Button.
- Now Select “Format Scan” option for RAW Data Recovery
- Now Open the Selected Folder to view the Recover Data in it. You can also view the deleted data into Red section.
- To Save Data in Desired Location, either you can select the specific file or you can select the Complete Folder
- Click on Save option to export data into the desired destination.
Conclusion
To change a file from RAW to NTFS file system in Windows, you can use the Powershell Command method to allocate the NTFS File system using Diskpart Command. Use the above-mentioned command and if you want to recover Data from RAW Data Recovery techniques then you can also use Automated Solution offered by SysTool.