New Drive with no data suddenly shows RAW
Posted: 04 Feb 2017, 23:47
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 attempted. I used TestDisk to change the RAW to NTFS but no partitions were found. What do I do next to enable this drive to work? I am reluctant to delete the volume because I did that on a different drive having the same problem (before I did some research on the topic) and my 3TB drive in that case can now only access less than 1TB so I don't want to screw up this drive.
Can anyone advise what my next step would be since there currently is no data on the 5TB drive? How do I get this to be NTFS and usable?
Thanks in advance.
Can anyone advise what my next step would be since there currently is no data on the 5TB drive? How do I get this to be NTFS and usable?
Thanks in advance.