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RAW shows on second hard drive

RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby PRstud » Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:09 pm

I was in the process of installing second hard drive for dual boot with Win7 and Vista. restarted Pc. On restart screen was black with a lot of writing moving so fast I couldnt read it. After PC booted to vista 64 bit
disk management showed my second drive as RAW, and now cannot access it. Has anyone had any experiece with this or on how to recover it?
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Re: RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby Grav!ty » Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:24 pm

Does it have a drive letter allocated? If not right click on the drive icon or on the partition illustration and select Change drive letter and path. Then select Add and select the drive letter you want...the one that is offered is usually best but not essential. You can also format when that option is provided if there's nothing on the drive you want keep.
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Re: RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby PRstud » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:07 pm

I dont know whats wrong now, but its not showing second drive at all which was D:
so now I cant format since its not there. Any other sugestions?
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Re: RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby shreader » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:46 pm

Does it show up in Disk Mahagement?

It may be unplugged?
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Re: RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby PRstud » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:49 pm

It seems to be fixed now. To tell you the truth, I just turned pc off. walked away for about an hour to clear the cowebs.
when I came back started the PC and all was well with both HDD's. Dont know what happened but its working fine
thanks all the replys
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Re: RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby Grav!ty » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:00 pm

Thanks for letting us know.
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Re: RAW shows on second hard drive

Postby PRstud » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:06 pm

You are All very welcome.
Everyone here is always very helpful.
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