My new 200gig Seagate haddrive is now showing a file system as "Raw" in the Computer Management service of my WinXP Pro. I don't understand how this happened and how to change it back to NTFS. I'm desperate to fix this! There is 40 dvd movies that I backed up to this drive and I don't want to spend another week ripping them agian.
I have two pc's.
1st has WinXP Pro and I installed this new drive on that to rip the 40 movies with DVD Shrink.
I formated it as a NTSF file system. All that was left was 2gig of free space when I was done. Then I removed the HD and isntalled in on my 2nd PC.
2nd PC with WinXP Home. Motherboard has ATA133 IDE controllers also.
So after installing the slave hd to this pc I do see all the files and folders. All my movies are still there and its a NTFS file system. I even play a movie using Theater Tek but the pc crashed ahalf way through the 1st chapter and reboots. I have an overheating CPU 1800AMD. Which is no biggy that I have been dealing with. Just rebooted after 5 min of cooling down. Going to replace this CPU this weekend with AMD2600 Barton.
After rebooting I see that the HD is showing correctly in BIOS.
My Computer does not show allow me to open up the drive. Get Error mssg: File of folder is corrupted and cannot open.
I check Computer Management and see that the drive File System is a RAW format. How did this happen? I did read a MS article on how sometimes on larger harddrives if the system goes into hibernation or does a cache dump that this may happen. THere is a MS download patch to install which I will.
But the question is: How do I put this HD back as a NTSF?
Is there a Free Shareware program that will let me do this?
Is there something I can do?
Im in desperate need of help.
I have two pc's.
1st has WinXP Pro and I installed this new drive on that to rip the 40 movies with DVD Shrink.
I formated it as a NTSF file system. All that was left was 2gig of free space when I was done. Then I removed the HD and isntalled in on my 2nd PC.
2nd PC with WinXP Home. Motherboard has ATA133 IDE controllers also.
So after installing the slave hd to this pc I do see all the files and folders. All my movies are still there and its a NTFS file system. I even play a movie using Theater Tek but the pc crashed ahalf way through the 1st chapter and reboots. I have an overheating CPU 1800AMD. Which is no biggy that I have been dealing with. Just rebooted after 5 min of cooling down. Going to replace this CPU this weekend with AMD2600 Barton.
After rebooting I see that the HD is showing correctly in BIOS.
My Computer does not show allow me to open up the drive. Get Error mssg: File of folder is corrupted and cannot open.
I check Computer Management and see that the drive File System is a RAW format. How did this happen? I did read a MS article on how sometimes on larger harddrives if the system goes into hibernation or does a cache dump that this may happen. THere is a MS download patch to install which I will.
But the question is: How do I put this HD back as a NTSF?
Is there a Free Shareware program that will let me do this?
Is there something I can do?
Im in desperate need of help.