The most common cause of external hard drives suddenly becoming RAW drives is if they are disconnected from a computer without using the “Safely Remove Hardware” option. Since Windows sees no filesystem in the partition, it prompts you to format it in order to create a filesystem on it. This often happens when the records determining the filesystem type or location on the disk are damaged or corrupted, usually the partition table or the boot sector. Therefore all the available filesystem drivers are unable to mount the filesystem as a drive. Properties of the drive show that both used and free spaces are 0 byte in size for the raw driveĪ RAW filesystem simply means that it is a filesystem that is not recognized by Windows.
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