Why is my hard drive showing a RAW drive?

[aquielisunari]

There are errors on the drive which need to be fixed. I tried the chkdsk F: /F and it told me it can't fix a RAW drive. I head over to disk management where it shows NTFS and not RAW. I recently did clean the interior of my case which involved removing 5 sata drives. I reseated the drive's cables after I saw this error but fixed nothing. I tried another SATA cable and the drive still doesn't work. It shows an empty drive if I click on the drive.

I'm using Win 10.

 

[CountMike]

That first partition shouldn't have any letter.

 

[aquielisunari]

That first partition shouldn't have any letter.

Okay. That's nothing new. It's been like that since I built the PC. I didn't add a letter or anything. Windows did that a long time ago so I don't see how that could have caused this issue.

 

[ArtPog]

1. We're assuming the drive in the screenshot is the 1 TB drive in question. I only raise this point since you've indicated your system contains five (5) drives and we want to be assured this is the "problem" drive. Capiche?

2. So we'll assume it is. Obviously DM indicates a "normal" secondary drive, that also contains the System Reserved partition. I assume one of your other drives is the boot drive. I'm guessing that the boot drive does NOT contain the SR partition so that you need this 1 TB drive installed upon bootup in order for the system to boot to the OS (which I guess is Win 10). So provide some info re the preceding, OK? (I'm guessing you probably previously cloned the contents of the 1 TB drive that contained the OS to the present boot drive - probably a SSD and possibly the SR partition was retained on the source (1 TB) drive - note the "Active" designation. You might also want to comment on that observation.)

3. In any event, assuming the 1 TB drive containing the F: partition is your "problem" drive, what happens if you explore its contents using DM? No data reflected?

 

[aquielisunari]

1. We're assuming the drive in the screenshot is the 1 TB drive in question. I only raise this point since you've indicated your system contains five (5) drives and we want to be assured this is the "problem" drive. Capiche?

2. So we'll assume it is. Obviously DM indicates a "normal" secondary drive, that also contains the System Reserved partition. I assume one of your other drives is the boot drive. I'm guessing that the boot drive does NOT contain the SR partition so that you need this 1 TB drive installed upon bootup in order for the system to boot to the OS (which I guess is Win 10). So provide some info re the preceding, OK? (I'm guessing you probably previously cloned the contents of the 1 TB drive that contained the OS to the present boot drive - probably a SSD and possibly the SR partition was retained on the source (1 TB) drive - note the "Active" designation. You might also want to comment on that observation.)

3. In any event, assuming the 1 TB drive containing the F: partition is your "problem" drive, what happens if you explore its contents using DM? No data reflected?

I was super vague. Sorry about that. It is a secondary drive that had 10, 7 or Ubuntu when I installed it. My main SSD boot drive also contains the SR partition. My PC can boot with only the SSD.

It(F: secondary 1TB drive shown in the screenshot) showed an empty drive when I explored it from disk management. That active designation is weird. The active drive, which I am still learning about, is the one that Windows look to for the boot?. Using HwInfo it showed my other drives as green but there wasn't any color next to that drive. No yellow, red or green.

I went ahead and disconnected all of my drives and reconnected again and it's all good again. 3rd times the charm? It is today.

 

[USAFRet]

From your full pic...
I've seen worse partitioning and formatting schemes. But not many.

 

[aquielisunari]

From your full pic...
I've seen worse partitioning and formatting schemes. But not many.

I thought someone would say that... Thanks for that 😀 Nope, not a good thing.

 

[ArtPog]

As USAFRet infers, your entire system's partitioning scheme is an abortion. But since you've indicated "it's all good again", so be it. Use your system in good health.

 

[aquielisunari]

As USAFRet infers, your entire system's partitioning scheme is an abortion. But since you've indicated "it's all good again", so be it. Use your system in good health.

An abortion!?

Okay, I will. Thanks for the information in your first reply.