Pictures in my Nikon D3200 are saved in the wrong format?

Ok, well i got a nikon D3200 digital camera for Christmas and i recently went to Bali and took over 600 photos on it, but i must have accidentally played around with the settings or something because the photo's don't cone up on my laptop, they come up as (for example) DSC_1041.NEF and when i try to open the file it says "an error is preventing the photo or video from being displayed. Error code: 0x800736b1.

I have also looked at the photos on my camera and there are a few that i can access because i took them before i stupidly messed around with the settings, and they say in the bottom right corner NORMAL 6016x4000, but on the ones i can't access they say RAW 6016x4000.

It has to be the raw setting thats preventing them form coming up, so is there any way to switch the setting on the camera? Or is it still possible to print the photos in this form?

Please help i took a lot of tme taking these and i really with i could access them.

RAW format is a non-compressed format, meaning the photo has all the information recorded during the photograph exposure. Its actually a better format than JPEG (Normal), as it can be changed after the photo to a much higher degree and keep much more exposure information in it.

You will need to use software such as Nikons NX2 software to view the files. In that you can convert them to JPEG format if you like.