raw disk

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  1. J

    Question SSD became RAW after Windows reinstall ?

    Hello, My pc was lagging and I had low FPS in games. Even games I used to run on medium I had good 90 fps, with minimum I had 30 with freezes, so I decided to reset the system, I reinstalled windows 10 however something happened. I purchased Kingston 500gb ssd M.2 around 2020 and replaced it...
  2. HoveringUFO

    [SOLVED] Drives file system changed to RAW upon using an USB docking station

    Hi there, Recently I've decided to update my hard drives to increase the overall data capacity. I've chosen HGST 6TB UltraStar 7K6000 7.2K 128MB SATA III 3.5' and a 4TB one, also by HGST. They are a typical high-durability server-grade drives. I own a docking station - Natec Kangaroo Dual, just...
  3. T

    Question USB shows RAW

    I can mount my encrypted USB, but the logical drive when clicked when unencrypted shows RAW. Any suggestions to get this fixed? Is there a way to copy the RAW logical decrypted logical drive data to a physical USB drive so I can run data recovery software on that physical drive because it will...
  4. Zane Stewart

    [SOLVED] How do you format RAW without losing data

    My hard drive is dying/dead(?). The file system changed to RAW and I cannot open the drive anymore. Is there any way I can get my data back or format without erasing? The drive is called: Seagate ST31000340AS (I tried CHKDSK but it said "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not...
  5. K

    [SOLVED] RAW Drive Partition Data Recovery SUCCESS (EASY)

    So I just had to post this here because I couldn't find this solution anywhere else on the internet (unless I'm not looking hard enough) Quick backstory, I work at a basic phone/computer repair shop, and I have had a few customers come in with computers that wont boot, upon mounting the hard...
  6. S

    [SOLVED] Please help! WD Elements SE problem!

    Hi all! My external WD Elements SE became unusable after I reboot my pc because it was not accepting some files transfers. It's stuck on RAW format and I can't do nothing with it. Sometimes the Win Explorer recognizes it, others doesn't. I went through several tips on the internet and I will...
  7. C

    [SOLVED] Can't Scan 'RAW' Disk - Error Code 1117

    A Seagate Barracuda sata drive has failed on my Windows 10 system and I'm trying figure out if it's recoverable. This situation looks similar to this post. The disk is recognized by the OS and I can see it mounted in Windows explorer. However, the whole disk shows up as a 'RAW' partition in...
  8. S

    RAID 0 and linux

    Hi, I have a dead gigabyte motherboard with sb710 chipset and a gigantic raid 0. It has very important files on it. So I guess I used fakeraid because I setup the raid in AMD bios. My question is, if I take this raid to a different machine and boot up with ubuntu or something similar, will I...