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so, I got a western bue HDD off amazon a couple of months ago( I would approximate 9 months ago) and I ran into an issue (2/18/2018), this issue completely made my HDD inaccessible, windows say that its a RAW file system, I tried formatting the drive because I haven't really used the drive for sensitive data, and it denied me, it says that it cannot "format" the drive, I tried using CMD (as admin) to Chkdsk the drive and I couldn't run, saying CHKDSK cannot read a RAW file, I have used a third-party software to check the disk and possible partition it but it couldn't recognize the drive(the drive didn't display on the software), so I checked if it could be that my drive was inserted properly, so I went to disk management to see if the drive was online and it was it also says Healthy partition. I am out of options now and I don't know what to do.
PLEASE HELP!
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I got a western bue HDD off amazon a couple of months ago(I would approximate 9 months ago)
-> 2 or 9 months ago?
I ran into an issue (2/18/2018)
-> Are you writing from the future?
I went to disk management to see if the drive was online and it was it also says Healthy
-> I would use the "clean" subcommand of diskpart.exe - see here.
The drive was probably part of a RAID array.
Follow the link in Frederik Long's post
