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Old 04-28-2005, 10:18 PM
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Partition Unaccessible-Any software to do the trick?

One of my harddrive has a partition problem. When I click on the drive in Windows Explorer, a window pops up and says " The Disk in Drive E is not formatted, Do you want to format it now?" I dunno why this happened. I went to DOS mode, and try to go to the drive, it wont let me, It will say " THe volume does not contain a reconized file system. Pls make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted."
I have alota files in that harddrive, I dont care what happens, I just want to copy out my important files, and then just format that damaged harddrive .Or if I can fix it, great.
In DOS, i did a " chkdsk e: " And it didnt work, it said " The type of the file system is RAW. CHDSK is not available for RAW drives." Dontknow what that means.
Some software that i've used that didnt work or maybe I didnt use it properly? :
PC Inspector FIle Recovery: This program prob came the close, it found directories and some files, but none of them were accessable. I copied out some files and folders. The folders that had my files were empty. Other files that were found-such as music files or videos, did not run-it said an error occured.

Hitachi Fitness Test: I couldnt access my harddrive period still. It said the harddrive wasnt accessable

ANy other software out there that will let me go into the harddrive to copy out files? I bet its just the system of the harddrive has issues, but the files are not corrupted.
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Old 04-28-2005, 10:26 PM
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Again, im using Windows 2000 , NOT XP, ME, 95,ETC. Im using WINDOWS 2000.
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Old 04-28-2005, 10:56 PM
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Why a formatted partition suddenly changed to "raw" meaning unformatted, is very strange.

I cannot shed any light on this enigma.

You may have to write off the data and try to reformat the partition. If it cannot be reformatted then the hard drive must be failing.
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Old 05-04-2005, 12:08 PM
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any other help?
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Old 05-13-2005, 09:50 AM
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Hitachi Fitness Test: I couldnt access my harddrive period still. It said the harddrive wasnt accessable


Till the above is corrected I suspect no other program will work to good. When you first boot, enter bios setup and see if the hdd is listed correctly. If it is not try to redetect the hdd. IF the hdd is still not correct in bios you could have a bad hdd, bad IDE cable, power supply, mother board, ect.

The hdd in question is a Hitachi drive ? If not, use the correct program.
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