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Derek Peters - 03 May 2007 23:19 GMT

How can I change the file system on an external drive? I have saved files to
it from my laptop as NTFS but when I connect it to my desktop the properties
window says the file system is RAW, so it will not read from or write to the
drive. Any suggestions please?

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Andrew E. - 04 May 2007 07:01 GMT

Type: diskmgmt.msc In run,R.click on the drive,select format,use the
options.
Or.go to run,type:cmd In cmd type:DiskPart In DiskPart,type:FORMAT E:
/FS:ntfs
E: being the drive..

> How can I change the file system on an external drive? I have saved files to
> it from my laptop as NTFS but when I connect it to my desktop the properties
> window says the file system is RAW, so it will not read from or write to the
> drive. Any suggestions please?

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gls858 - 04 May 2007 15:02 GMT

> Type: diskmgmt.msc In run,R.click on the drive,select format,use the
> options.
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>> window says the file system is RAW, so it will not read from or write to the
>> drive. Any suggestions please?

As usual Andrew is giving bad advice. Be aware that the advice given
will destroy all of the data on that drive.

gls858

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Derek Peters - 04 May 2007 22:21 GMT

Sadly Disc Manager does not show the drive in its list, so I cannot format it
either from there or from My Computer/Properties. DiskPart does not have a
Format command so I can't do it from there either. I don't mind losing the
data, there's not much of it and it is easily replaced, so any other ideas
please?

> Type: diskmgmt.msc In run,R.click on the drive,select format,use the
> options.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> > window says the file system is RAW, so it will not read from or write to the
> > drive. Any suggestions please?

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ThvdWood - 31 Jul 2007 18:24 GMT

Hello Derek,
I have exactly the same problem so if you (or anyone else) have the solution
will you please tell me ???
mail: thvdwood@live.nl

Thanks

> Sadly Disc Manager does not show the drive in its list, so I cannot format it
> either from there or from My Computer/Properties. DiskPart does not have a
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> > > window says the file system is RAW, so it will not read from or write to the
> > > drive. Any suggestions please?

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