Ok... Here is the read-out of the Disk Managment section (concerning the volume in question)
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Volume: F
Layout: Partition
Type: Basic
File system: RAW
Status: Healthy (Active)
Capacity: 213.34 GB
Free Space: 213.34 GB
Free Space: 100%
Fault tolerance: No
Overhead: 0
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So by "state" I guess you meant Status. But that does not matter, as I am not concerned with the state (or status) of my partition, but rather with what happened to its file system format. Or, more precisely, why did it change from NTFS32 to RAW after I ran Windows Check Disk. As I have mentioned before, this partition was accessable and had about 200 GB of data on it prior to running check disk after reboot(reset). This drive has, and has always had, allocated space to this particular partition. Anyway, every piece of information that I can get from my computer points towards the fact that this partition has been somehow earased. So I was wondering if this is something Windows Check Disk function does, and if so in what case(s).