My Drive goes RAW after a couple of days

[bidomo]

Hey everyone!

Well, My hard drive is failing to show as NTFS, it will only get recognized as a RAW partition, windows assigns a drive letter but always ask to format it...

I successfully recovered data so I could format it properly, TestDisk was unable to wirte the partition back, it shows Write error.

Well, once I got my info, I did a low level format with HDDGuru tool, then proceeded to a full format, a few power cycles, and everything was sitll ok, started copying back my backup (and kept the data in other disk).

Now I tried to mount it, just to find out, its showing as RAW again....

Is there anything to do? HDD health looks OK

Wester Digital Caviar Green Drive WD10EADS-11M2B2
Advanced format Drive from What I know
OS Windows 7 x64 & x86

 

[popatim]

return it, hopefully its still under warranty (3yrs I think)

 

[bidomo]

return it, hopefully its still under warranty (3yrs I think)

Out of limited warranty, till today, I haven't noticed the drive is recertified.

If I move the partition a couple of GB far from the start? The drive is completely healthy

 

[popatim]

do what you gotta do.
be sure to backup any important data.

 

[bidomo]

do what you gotta do.
be sure to backup any important data.

Already backed up, I made sure not to delete my info from my spare laptop drives, if I remember correctly, Disk management or Partition wizard, found 2 partitions on the drive, well that never actually happened, so I better start experimenting...

 

[bidomo]

Could it be that the logic board is to blame? the disk is completely healthy...