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The second partition on my slave hard drive (Drive D under XP Pro) decided a
few days ago that it was going to become a RAW partition... Now I can't
figure out how to format it back to an NTFS partition because right now it
has no format to convert from. Saving the data that was on the partition
isn't crucial to me since the majority of it was backed up on CDs or savable
by Norton GoBack. But I would like to have my partition readable again since
it's 50 GB in size... Is there any way to do this without reformatting the
whole drive or with a useful freeware utility? I don't have a floppy drive,
but I do have a USB drive, CD-RW, DVD-R, and card drives.
Here's my setup if it can be of any help:
HDD 1: WD 40GB
Partition 1: 33.54GB, FAT32, home of Win98SE, Drive F in XP, Drive C in 98SE
Partition 2: 3.72GB, FAT32, file backup, Drive M in XP, Drive D in 98SE
HDD2: Seagate 120GB
Partition 1: 55.89GB, NTFS, home of WinXP Pro SP2, Drive C in XP
Partition 2: 50.04GB, NTFS, <== former file storage space, now RAW, Drive D
in XP
Partition 3: 5.85GB, FAT32, OEM Recovery Partition, Drive E in XP
Thanks in advance for any advice and help,
Charissa
few days ago that it was going to become a RAW partition... Now I can't
figure out how to format it back to an NTFS partition because right now it
has no format to convert from. Saving the data that was on the partition
isn't crucial to me since the majority of it was backed up on CDs or savable
by Norton GoBack. But I would like to have my partition readable again since
it's 50 GB in size... Is there any way to do this without reformatting the
whole drive or with a useful freeware utility? I don't have a floppy drive,
but I do have a USB drive, CD-RW, DVD-R, and card drives.
Here's my setup if it can be of any help:
HDD 1: WD 40GB
Partition 1: 33.54GB, FAT32, home of Win98SE, Drive F in XP, Drive C in 98SE
Partition 2: 3.72GB, FAT32, file backup, Drive M in XP, Drive D in 98SE
HDD2: Seagate 120GB
Partition 1: 55.89GB, NTFS, home of WinXP Pro SP2, Drive C in XP
Partition 2: 50.04GB, NTFS, <== former file storage space, now RAW, Drive D
in XP
Partition 3: 5.85GB, FAT32, OEM Recovery Partition, Drive E in XP
Thanks in advance for any advice and help,
Charissa