Samsung SSD in RAW format

[Jackietools]

I gave my uncle a 120 GB Samsung 840 from my daughters PC. It had the O/S(Winows 7) installed on it. Anyway I do not think I erased the disk before I gave it to him. When he installed it in his PC he attempted to initialize then format it but it keeps coming up in RAW format. I then deleted simple volume and again attempted a reformat in NTFS file sysytem and again it says "check connection" and it still is in RAW format. I need to get it to format to NTFS so he can use it. Can't figure out what is wrong. I can use Team Viewer to remote in to him but I think it may be a BIOS setting and that I cannot check for him. Any ideas much appreciated. I'm thinking it has something to do with my daughters O/S still being on it. Thanks

 

[Chicano]

Lots of related info in the thread... basically you start with assigning a drive letter to the Raw partition. If the problem continues you'll need to repair the Partition table with a HDD/partition recovery program

Recover NTFS Partition on RAW Drive
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283116-32-recover-ntfs-partition-drive

Difference Between MBR and Partition Table
http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/software-technology/difference-between-mbr-and-partition-table/

Partition Recover Software
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=IUikVfePF8mG8Qewv4GIBQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=partition+recovery+program+free

 

[Jackietools]

Lots of related info in the thread... basically you start with assigning a drive letter to the Raw partition. If the problem continues you'll need to repair the Partition table with a HDD/partition recovery program

Recover NTFS Partition on RAW Drive
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/283116-32-recover-ntfs-partition-drive

Difference Between MBR and Partition Table
http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/software-technology/difference-between-mbr-and-partition-table/

Partition Recover Software
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=IUikVfePF8mG8Qewv4GIBQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=partition+recovery+program+free

Never had this problem before. don't care about the old data. I want it wiped clean and formatted NTFS. Ill give your solutions a try. Thanks.

 

[Chicano]

Yeah.. but any HDD should be easily formatted and if you can't... you first have to gain access to it and that's achieved after recovering partitiohns or repairing the partition table.

You can also try formatting it trough the Command Prompt / Diskpart options... full description follows.

Unable to Format HDD
http://superuser.com/questions/641494/unable-to-format-hdd

A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility (Says for Windows XP but applies the same for Windows 7 or 8/8.1)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/300415

 

[Jackietools]

Yeah.. but any HDD should be easily formatted and if you can't... you first have to gain access to it and that's achieved after recovering partitiohns or repairing the partition table.

You can also try formatting it trough the Command Prompt / Diskpart options... full description follows.

Unable to Format HDD
http://superuser.com/questions/641494/unable-to-format-hdd

A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility (Says for Windows XP but applies the same for Windows 7 or 8/8.1)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/300415

This is an SSD. Guess HDD or SSD should be the same

 

[Chicano]

Yes, it should be the same... if it were any different, additional functions would have been added to Windows Disk Management by now... or to disk management tools for that matter.