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External drive used space and free spaces are 0 bytes on Mac

Greetings to all of you! Hope this is the appropriate place for me to request assistance! To be honest, my laptop only lately states that it needs to be formatted and that nothing can be accessed before any formatting when I try to read an external hard drive that contains numerous commercial papers and videos. It also appears to be a RAW file system with o bytes for both used and free space when one tries to view the properties. Why is beyond me? However, in order to prepare for my meeting, I must view and extract the contents. How should I go about this? Can my lost data be recovered using software for recovering data from an external hard drive in RAW format?

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Amanda Wong

Answered on Tuesday, August 27, 2024

When you look at the properties of the external hard drive on Mac, it just displays as a RAW file system with 0 bytes for both used and free space, then the drive is inaccessible and unreadable. If you want to recover data from it, you will need third-party data recovery software, and then reformat the drive on Mac to make it usable again.

A drive that is in the RAW state has a corrupted, unknown, or blank file system. It is not specific to Windows; it also appears on macOS with very slight variations in symptoms. To recover data from RAW drive on Mac, you can try iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac, a professional data recovery software.

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After recovering data from the RAW file format external drive on Mac, you can proceed to format the external hard drive on Mac so that you can use it again and it will show correct used space and free space. You can choose to reformat the drive in Disk Utility or with Terminal.