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Hard Drive Volume is suddenly "RAW"?
I have a hard drive with two volumes on it, G and H. Both were formatted in the NTFS system. Recently I have been unable to access Volume G. I get the following message:
G:\ is not accessible.
The wrong diskette is in the drive.
Insert (Volume Serial Number: ) into drive G:\.
When I right clicked on the icon for Volume G and clicked properties I saw the file system listed as "RAW".
Can someone please tell me how this happened and how can I get it back to NTFS? The other volume (Volume H) is perfectly fine.
1 Answer
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
RAW is just simply unformatted space... Something must have happened to do this, for example I deleted a partition and all the data was lost so the data became RAW space. If it had anything valuable try some free recovery software or pay for one to get your data back. Here is a link to some freeware.
http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm
If nothing valuable was on it, don't bother and just format it to a FAT32 system or whatever is ideal to your by right clicking and select format. Good luck.
