I Can't Format My RAW External Hard Drive, Please Help!
I have tried many ways but failed to format my 1TB RAW external hard drive on Windows Vista and Windows 7. I don't know what else I can do to be able to use my hard drive again. I hope someone knows a way to solve this problem. Thanks.
Best Answered by
Cici· Answered on Aug 09, 2023
You have tried to repair RAW drive using various Windows tools, but Windows cannot access the disk. So why not try a professional and reliable formatting tool? EaseUS Partition Master will be your first choice for repairing RAW drives.
I know you are eager to see how you can successfully format your external hard drive and put it into use. In just four steps, you can avoid the blunders caused by the built-in Windows tools:
Step 1. Right-click on the RAW drive that needs to be formatted and select "Format."
Step 2. Assign partition labels and file systems, set the cluster size, and click "OK."
Step 3. Select "yes" in the warning window that pops up.
Step 4. Click on "Execute 1 Task(s)" in the lower right corner and click on "Apply."
Although you cannot run check disk on CMD, you can try to format the RAW partition using CMD. Open Diskpart and type the following command:
- list disk
- select disk n
- attributes disk clear readonly
- clean
- create partition primary
- select part 1
- active (if the drive is the boot drive)
- format fs=ntfs quick (give a name to the drive)
- Assign
Besides, a RAW drive is most likely caused by bad sectors or a corrupt file system. If you cannot format it, try running EaseUS Partition Master's Disk Surface Test to fix the problem.
