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- 05 Feb 2017, 17:30
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: New Drive with no data suddenly shows RAW
- Replies: 2
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Re: New Drive with no data suddenly shows RAW
At the suggestion of the person who replied, I went to the WD forums and with their suggestions, I successfully reformatted the drive to NTFS using a Windows 7 platform. Go figure!
- 04 Feb 2017, 23:47
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: New Drive with no data suddenly shows RAW
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1754
New Drive with no data suddenly shows RAW
I just bought a new 5TB Western Digital drive. Using Windows 10, I formatted the drive as NTFS, everything seemed okay, I am using this drive as external storage. When I plugged the USB cable into my desktop to use the drive, I found it was now in RAW format, not NTFS. It failed to format when ...