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REPAIRING (NOT RECOVERING FILES) RAW External Hard Disk

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November 16, 2013 11:21:30 AM

Hi everyone. I bought an external hard disk some months ago and now for reasons unknown to me, my EHD turned to RAW and I tried to REPAIR it (I don't care about the files contained inside, they're all unimportant though) using every method I had found so far in the net including "TestDisk" and some recovery softwares like EaseUs but all my attempts were in vain.

And now, my only resort is the experts here because I know that this is the most famous and most reliable website as far as computer-related things are concerned.

To summarize, I aim to reconvert my External hard drive back from RAW to NTFS format even if everything inside it is completely destroyed in the process. The only thing that matters for me is to revive that EHD because I roughly have no space left in my main hard drive and I really can't afford to buy another one.

Please HELP me! Any suggestion/help will be greatly appreciated.

BTW, my EHD is WD Passport 500 GB.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I also tried to format via disk management and via the conventional method but they all failed.

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a b G Storage
November 16, 2013 11:24:17 AM

You just need to do a standard format. If your in windows 7, open computer, right click the drive, pick format, etc.
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November 16, 2013 11:27:32 AM

Deuce65 said:
You just need to do a standard format. If your in windows 7, open computer, right click the drive, pick format, etc.


Thanks for the reply, but I forgot to mention that I also tried to format via disk management and via the conventional method but they all failed.
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November 16, 2013 11:48:06 AM

Could anyone recommend a good software to forcibly format my EHD? I don't care if the process is dangerous for my EHD because it'll stay dead anyway if I don't try it.
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a b G Storage
November 16, 2013 12:35:59 PM

Go into disk management. Delete the volume. Create a new volume. Format.
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November 16, 2013 9:47:08 PM

Deuce65 said:
Go into disk management. Delete the volume. Create a new volume. Format.


I did that already because at first, after booting up my computer, I noticed that my EHD didn't show up in My Computer and I took action by going to disk management and I found out that it was not initialized. Then I tried to initialize it as MBR but failed then I tried the GPT option and the process was success. Then, I converted it from GPT to MBR in disk management but when I created a simple volume out of it, the formatting failed but nevertheless a new RAW volume has been successfully created.
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