Error When Formatting External Hard Drive
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The How-To Geek Forums Have Migrated to Discourse How-To Geek Forums / Windows 7 (Solved) - External hard drive won't format HELP (23 formatting external hard drive for xbox one posts) Started 4 years ago by feinui Latest reply from feinui Topic Viewed formatting external hard drive without losing data 23804 times 1 2 Next » feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. I have an LG formatting external hard drive to fat32 external hard drive which I unplugged one day without doing the safe eject. Now it won't work. The computer recognize its existence on the F drive and disk management says the status is formatting seagate external hard drive healthy (primary partition) But it will not format. Under File system, the drive is described as RAW. I do not need to recover the data but I got it only six months ago and hate to have to throw it away and buy a new one. Any help would be much appreciated. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top vistamike Posts: 10945 This
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post has been reported. Try this, with the drive attached; From command prompt type: Convert f: /FS:NTFS Mike Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. Thanks Mike but the formatting was unsuccessful because it is a RAW volume. I tried doing the formatting from Disk Management but that did not work either. Any thoughts on what else can be done? The status is still marked as healthy Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top whs Posts: 17584 This post has been reported. Go to Disk Management and delete partition and volume until you have unallocated space.. Then start anew by defining a new simple partition.. Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top 202d Posts: 127 This post has been reported. take the drive out of the enclosure. get a new enclosure or a USB 'bridge' that reads sATA and try above stuff again. and get a fresh USB cord Reports: · Posted 4 years ago Top feinui Posts: 99 This post has been reported. Thanks WHS. I did that and now, six hours later it says
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employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. http://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/ I take no responsibility for anything you do based on my examples or the information that I provide here. I recommend this device for connecting a boot drive to another computer or if you need to remove an external drive from a broken enclosure. You can use the software that comes with it or use the free software linked in my guide below. ALWAYS CHECK THE DRIVE FOR PHYSICAL external hard PROBLEMS FIRST as I describe below in the section "Accessing and Assessing a Hard Drive’s S.M.A.R.T. Data to Determine if There is Physical Damage" I hope this helps you, James It has been well over a year since last updating my post on ‘Recovering an external hard drive that has suddenly become RAW' and there have been some significant changes. PartedMagic is no longer free Hard drives larger than external hard drive 500GB have become commonplace TestDisk has become even better Many many many comments from people have been posted that show common problems that are not directly addressed by the original post. So with all of that in mind, here is a revised version that hopefully addresses some of the shortomings of the post that was originally released in January of 2013. A common and befuddling problem with computers is the sudden and seemingly inexplicable disappearance of an external hard drive that has been functioning properly. It can be a breathtaking experience to suddenly be told that your data, often irreplaceable pictures and documents, might be gone forever. As with many similar situations in life the appropriate response is "Don't panic". When approached sensibly and carefully, the situation can be resolved and the data saved more times than not. Here we will look at the causes, fixes and preventative measures for instances involving external drives being used with Windows XP and Windows Vista/7/8. Error Messages Common error messages associated with the sudden inability to access an external hard disk drive. Windows XP Windows 7 DO NOT FORMAT THE DRIVE When attempting to access the drive in Windows you may see a message asking you to for