RAW hard drive

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i recently purchased a hard drive caddy/case fitted in my spare hard
drive only to find that my spare hard drive will not format at all
because for some reason it is RAW. any ideas on how i can sort
this???
 
mrjenkins81 said:
i recently purchased a hard drive caddy/case fitted in my spare
hard drive only to find that my spare hard drive will not format at all
because for some reason it is RAW. any ideas on how i can sort this???
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Thats what it usually reports if there is a problem.

How have you got the hard drive jumpered ?

What are you trying to format it with, and what OS ?
 
mrjenkins81 said:
i recently purchased a hard drive caddy/case fitted in my spare hard
drive only to find that my spare hard drive will not format at all
because for some reason it is RAW. any ideas on how i can sort
this???
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I recently encountered a similar situation. I am running Windows XP Pro and
went into Disk Management. I then establed the drive as a Primary Partition
and I was then able to format the drive in NTFS. If you do not have Windows
XP then create a Primary Patition with fdisk.

Regards,
Bill
 
i am running on windows xp pro. the drive is set as master as pe
instructions. i did try setting it up in other variations and none o
them worked at all. i have a feeling i might have a dud drive.

bill thanks,
i did already try this and unfortunatly to no avail. al i got was
message saying format could not be completed.

thank
 
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i recently purchased a hard drive caddy/case fitted in my spare hard
drive only to find that my spare hard drive will not format at all
because for some reason it is RAW. any ideas on how i can sort
this???
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This is something like making a field ready. First you mark the
boundaries and then you plow the various sections.

FDISK is to set up the boundaries of each partition you want to work
with. Format is similar to preparing the furrows where you want to
sow.

So first use FDISK or any partitioning software to make a single or
multiple partitions and then format each.

HTH
 
mrjenkins81 said:
i am running on windows xp pro. the drive is set as master as per
instructions. i did try setting it up in other variations and none of
them worked at all. i have a feeling i might have a dud drive.
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Or a dud housing. The obvious way to see if the drive
is a dud is to see if the drive works as an internal drive.
 
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