Hard Drive = RAW?
 

I recently formatted my Quantum Hard Drive and set it as the master, then I put my old master hard drive (samsung) as the slave. I made that while i was installing the windows I did not have the Samsung hard drive plugged in because if it was, it'd format it because I had some data on there that I needed. Everything was fine and dandy until my Samsung hard drive turned into a RAW type. Everytime i tried to open it, it'd some up with a message stating "This disk has not been formatted would you like to?" No I DONT!! Is there a way to convert it back to a working Hard Drive w/o formatting it? I really need the Files on there. Thanks!

take out your new drive and boot off the old samsung drive. Copy the data to disks, drop your new drive back in and move the data from the disks to the HDD

I can't convert the samsung drive to something other than RAW? Because I'd still ike to use that as my slave.

googling up some info i got this.. right click on my computer > manage > disk management > then activate.. hope it works

I can't, my hard drive is ACTIVE, but it's the File System Type is RAW i need to convert it into something that will allow me to open the hard drive and view the files in it. as of right now that hard drive is completely unopenable. everytime I try to open it, it says, "Disk is not yet formatted would you like to"

Let me preface this stab in the dark by saying that I've never heard of this problem, and do not know what will happen for sure if you do what I am about to suggest.

That being said, have you tried using the convertfs command on that hard drive? To do this, open up a command line, then type convert c: /fs:ntfs. This is assuming your c: drive is the one you want to convert, which I'm sure it's not. Let me know what happens if you decide to try this.

Edit: Waitaminute....Did you try just assigning it a new drive letter? It will be under disk management as well. Give that a shot, see if it does anything.

Doesn't need a drive letter to be the right partition type. You could use a *nix box to change the drives filesys flag. Otherwise, it might be a bad note in the partition header. Not a ton you can do from a strictly Windows perspective. Try some of the Acronis disk utilities (expensive, but they can be "found") maybe?

I didn't think so either, but I ran a quick search on google and found someone having the exact same problem (although it was with Win2003 Server) which was fixed by changing the drive letter. Who knows...

i tried that, but i always get an error..that pops up =(

help :-( me

have u tried turning it into a master again and booting of it? if u havent, maybe you should.. if you did but got an error message.. what was it? i had HD didnt didnt wanna boot into windows, i just googled the error and solved it quickly

i get the blue screen of death when i try to set it up as a master, it woudln't boot into windows either.

doh =/ no luck so far

Has anyone found a solution for this? Bump. :hmm: