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Raw HD &/or Partition
Name: XpUser Date: July 11, 2005 at 07:28:34 Pacific OS: XP Home & PRO All SP2 CPU/Ram: 2.02GHz/512RAM
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Does anyone know what caused a HD or HD partition to turn "RAW"? Is something that you can do to prevent this from happening?
So far the only thing I know that can cause it is the damaged partition boot sector and that to fix it you will need to boot to the Recovery Console to run fixboot.
Name: ham30 Date: July 11, 2005 at 09:30:54 Pacific
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Also, is it linked to WinXP? I've never heard of it happening with Win9X.
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Response Number 2
Name: Rick McNabb Date: July 11, 2005 at 09:40:56 Pacific
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What the heck does "RAW" mean?? You mean the status in Disk Manager? Probably a corrupted partition table.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: July 11, 2005 at 09:46:56 Pacific
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Hi ham,
Actually it has not happened to any of the PCs running Windows XP. Yesterday someone asked this question and I have been curious ever since. I googled the net and wasn't able to find anything useful. Maybe this subject isn’t meant to be anything more than a hypothetical question.
Regards
i_XpUser
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: July 11, 2005 at 10:14:43 Pacific
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Hi XPUser, I have seen several instances of XP losing hard drives. Some of them have determined that it's the RAW thing. It baffles me.
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Response Number 5
Name: CrazyOne Date: July 11, 2005 at 13:53:36 Pacific
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RAW would indicate an unformatted partition and/or drive. No file system. Now RAID, SQL, RAW Dynamic,...
Nevermind ;-) The first sentence basically says it all ;-)
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