Recover Lost Data with RAW Recovery of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Windows

This article applies to:

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Windows

What is RAW Recovery?
Data recovery tools typically reconstruct lost files through two methods, enabling you to efficiently and effectively recover your lost data.

Locate the files via File Directory Info

The scan result will be listed in a file tree with original file names and attributes. Generally, you will find the lost/deleted files from the folder list. This is considered to be fast in a recovery process.

RAW Recovery

It is a procedure to search and re-create the file directly by searching all Data Field. You can consider it as a kind of recovery method adopted by our developer. It requires more time to go through all sectors on a partition. The recovered file will be assigned a different name like "File Name Lost" and all sorted b file types in "File Path Lost" or "Reconstructed" folder.

In conclusion, RAW recovery is not an independent software. It is a feature that will be processed automatically when you scan a drive in EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

What kind of files does each folder contain?

Local Disk/Lost Partition

Files found through quick scan. Those files generally come with original names and folders but probably cannot be opened due to the folder structure or file corruption.

File Path Lost

Files found through quick scan or advanced scan. Those files generally lose part of their folder structure and the program could only locate the sub-folders and original names. However, they probably cannot be opened due to the folder structure or file corruption.

Reconstructed

Files found through advanced scan and would be sorted by file types. They are likely to be the files you want to recover.

When the File Directory is corrupted, there's no method to recover files with right file names and data content. And it will be vain-less no matter how many times you run the scan . In such a case, the best result you can get is to recover the content of the files without the names/folders.  
 
How to recover lost files with RAW Recovery?
RAW files folders found by RAW Recovery only appears after a full advanced scan, then the folders will be listed at the bottom of file tree.
 
Since RAW files comes with a totally new name, you have to check them one by one to see if any required file is included. It would cost a huge amount of time to confirm all listed files, but we still have some tips to help you directly locate the files you are looking for.
 
1. The program will start a quick scan at first. During the quick scan session, the program will search for the files based on the remaining file system info. Those files will be listed in the original folder structure and File Path Lost.

Here you may encounter with such situations:
1) You find the file with the original name/folder and it does allow you to preview rightly.

 2) You find the file with the original name/folder but it says the file format is not supported or unable to preview and need to be repaired.

3) You did not find anything related to the information you need from the current folder structure.
 
In situation 1, it means that you are lucky to find the original files with same names/folders. And you just need to select the file/folders and hit recover button to download the files/folders to another drive.
 
In situation 2 and 3, it means that the file system information is damaged so you are unable to find the original names/folders of the files. You will have to wait for the advanced scan to be finished and filter the files in other methods.
 
2. You will find more files than you see in the quick scan when the advanced scan is finished.

That means you have a greater opportunity to find the files that you were not finding or not opening in the previous quick scan. However, there are thousands of files and it will be a time-consuming to check all the files one after another. Based on years of experience, our professionals prepared the following tips for you to locate the right recoverable files effectively.
 
1) Filter files with the information you obtain from the quick scan:
Note down the size and the extension of the files you find but unable to open/preview in the quick scan. Enter that extension name in the search box and choose to list them by size, you will get a list of files including the quick scan results and advanced scan results. Find out the one that has the same size of the previous file from the results and you will be able to open it.

2) Filter files by “Reconstructed” when you do not find any useful info from the quick scan: 
The files in this folder will be reorganized by file types if there is no file system information can be retrieved.

For example, Pictures includes different types of pictures, like .bmp, .jpg, .cr3, etc. Please point on needed picture extension and sort the files by type first. Then, click on the option on top right of the program to display the files in large icons and locate the needed files.

We also offer remote assistance service to help user filter a large amount of scan result more efficiently. If you need that, please contact us via Livechat or support@easeus.com, we will arrange a remote session as soon as we can.