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1TB external HD showing up as RAW file format!!!

  • 10-06-2010 1:41am
    #1
    testtech05
    Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    A friend has asked me to look at his hard drive for him, it is a 1 tb WD Mybook. Basically when I plug it into my PC it connects and I can see it in my computer, but it shows up as local disk I: If I right click and go to properties it tells me the drive is of file type RAW and size 0 bytes free space zero bytes, yet if I go into my disk management the drive is there as I: type raw size 931 gb.

    I am not too bothered about the data that was on the drive as there was nothing too important on here unless someone can suggest a handy way of retreaving it.

    I have even tried to format the drive but i get an error saying the format did not complete successfully.

    Any help would be much appreciated.
    TT


Comments

  • #2
    spider guardian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭spider guardian


    Sounds like a faulty hard disk, best get it replaced!


  • #3
    testtech05
    Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭testtech05


    Is there anything else it could be the hard drive seems to be powering up and spinning without any problems, my friend is out of work and dont think he could afford to replace it tbh.


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    If its sub a year old its within warranty and will be free.

    Tried using CHKDSK?


  • #5
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Lethal_Bullet wrote: »
    If its sub a year old its within warranty and will be free.

    Should have a 3 year warranty if you deal directly with Western Digital rather than the retailer, and you'd most likely have it back within a week.

    Might not be a hardware fault though... If you're really not worried about the data, I would delete the volume in disk management, then set up a new one

    Any idea what happened before it went like this? Was it formatted with NTFS or FAT32?

    Vista can have a bit of a bug where a drive will show up as raw in disk management until you assign it a drive letter, but if you're saying it shows up as I: in my computer that's not gonna be it...


  • #6
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    try using a live cd to see the drive,unix or see here www.ntfs.com livecd
    activeboot disk ,it has format or recovery functions for drives.


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  • #7
    testtech05
    Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭testtech05


    tman wrote: »
    Should have a 3 year warranty if you deal directly with Western Digital rather than the retailer, and you'd most likely have it back within a week.

    Might not be a hardware fault though... If you're really not worried about the data, I would delete the volume in disk management, then set up a new one

    Any idea what happened before it went like this? Was it formatted with NTFS or FAT32?

    Vista can have a bit of a bug where a drive will show up as raw in disk management until you assign it a drive letter, but if you're saying it shows up as I: in my computer that's not gonna be it...

    Its over one year unfortunately, might try getting onto WD direct though. As far as I know it used to be FAT32. Gonna try and delete the drive now and set up a new one. Ill let you guys know if it works.


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