CHKDSK File System is RAW

[Somchai]

Everything used to work fine until about a week ago. I have experinced some
problems and I wanted to do a system restore. However, I could open the
program, click next seen restore points but as soon as I selcted one and
clicked next nothing happend anymore and it didn't go any further. After
that I tried to do a Disk Defragment and same thing the program open and then
closed again. Then I did a repair (booting from CD, etc) which was running
fine but still none of the above mentioned worked. Think what to do next, I
did a chkdsk /f /r and the error returned that the File System is RAW and
chkdsk can not check this RAW file system.

Has anyone got any idea how that could happen, nothing new was installed and
also there were no hardware changes. Is there any fix or what could I try to
get this PC in working order again without reformatting it.

Thanks to all.

 

[almostbob]

RAW is a cd format
did you
chkdsk c: /f
or
chkdsk /f the cd drive

 

[John John (MVP)]

This is often cause by a damaged boot sector. TestDisk may be able to
fix this for you. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

John

 

[cienega]

I have the exact same problem. I had some maleware and a blue screen with a stop error.
I can not use system restore, check disk or disk defragmenter. I cannot access windows update site or any microsoft help site and some other like PCpitstop.
On boot up i get a short message saying windows file system is RAW and chkdisk can not handle it.
In computer managment and else where the file system shows as NTFS and i am able to use the computer normally.
I booted from windows CD to a command prompt and ran the chkdisk from there, it had 1 error and fixed it but i still have the same problems.
Help

 

[Somchai]

Thank you I will try to run testdisk and let you know.

 

[cienega]

Conficker Virus!!