Really complicated problem.

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Hello, I hope someone can help me. I don't know MUCH about computers but I know a little. I got a laptop that every time I turned it on it said "No media device, check wires". I "got" windows 10, took Rufus, and made a bootable drive. Through much time I was able to start it up. But along the line someone had said on a forum to access terminal and delete the volume that the hard drive was occupying. So windows opened onto this 8gb flash drive. Now I can access windows and have re-created the partition, volume, even assigned letter for the hard drive. The reason I'm on this forum is that now that I can see the hard drive, it isn't functional. Its format is "RAW" and every time I try to reformat it, it gives me a error. I just want to take the USB and clean install the windows 10 ISO I have on the newly partitioned hard drive. But every time I tried before making the USB bootable, it gave me a "driver missing" error. Please help if you can.
 
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Hi there.

Give it a go by following this tutorial from scratch (along with the creating of the Windows installation media) to see if anything changes: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html.
RAW means that there's now file system or that it's corrupted. If you're unable to reformat the drive via the Windows installation media, you could try doing that by connecting the HDD to a different computer and try reformatting it via Disk Management.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
Hi there.

Give it a go by following this tutorial from scratch (along with the creating of the Windows installation media) to see if anything changes: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html.
RAW means that there's now file system or that it's corrupted. If you're unable to reformat the drive via the Windows installation media, you could try doing that by connecting the HDD to a different computer and try reformatting it via Disk Management.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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