Convert RAW to NTFS...
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No matter what I do I cannot convert a RAW disk (what the heck is RAW anyways) to NTFS. Anyone have some ideas? Windows keeps telling me AUTOCHK is not available for RAW drives and AUTOCONVERT is not available for RAW drives and the RAW drive won't do a dang thing. Does anyone have an idea?
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No matter what I do I cannot convert a RAW disk (what the heck is RAW anyways) to NTFS. Anyone have some ideas? Windows keeps telling me AUTOCHK is not available for RAW drives and AUTOCONVERT is not available for RAW drives and the RAW drive won't do a dang thing. Does anyone have an idea?
[edit]Don't[/edit] Format the drive into NTFS. (unless you don't want the data thats on it) As for what a 'raw' drive is, i don't know. I shall investigate. Perhaps this will help: http://www.duxcw.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=15331[^] Apparantly raw is just like it says. Its pretty much an unformatted drive. This persons just decided it wasn't formatted one day.
My current favourite word is: PIE! Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
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No matter what I do I cannot convert a RAW disk (what the heck is RAW anyways) to NTFS. Anyone have some ideas? Windows keeps telling me AUTOCHK is not available for RAW drives and AUTOCONVERT is not available for RAW drives and the RAW drive won't do a dang thing. Does anyone have an idea?
RAW means that windows believes the drive is not formatted.
John
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No matter what I do I cannot convert a RAW disk (what the heck is RAW anyways) to NTFS. Anyone have some ideas? Windows keeps telling me AUTOCHK is not available for RAW drives and AUTOCONVERT is not available for RAW drives and the RAW drive won't do a dang thing. Does anyone have an idea?
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You'd better copy your stuff off that drive before you lose it, then format as NTFS and copy your stuff back on (if you can).
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How are you going to copy data from not formatted disc? It has no recognized file system, so what are you going to save and how???
gnk
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[edit]Don't[/edit] Format the drive into NTFS. (unless you don't want the data thats on it) As for what a 'raw' drive is, i don't know. I shall investigate. Perhaps this will help: http://www.duxcw.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=15331[^] Apparantly raw is just like it says. Its pretty much an unformatted drive. This persons just decided it wasn't formatted one day.
My current favourite word is: PIE! Good ol' pie, it's been a while.
Many moons ago, raw data on a floppy was always a possibility, particularly for proprietary systems (translates to: buy from us or lose your data). The copy issue needs to be addressed, I'd imagine, in the same way: using absolute disk reads, sector by sector - into coherent files on another (formatted drive). A real-life example: where I used to work, one of the labs had an instrument which would save data to floppies. You could view the data, but if you wanted to process it further (or plot it to paper) - you had to buy an add-on. They gave me a disketted (I really loved doing this stuff) and I analyzed it to see how the data is layed out. In this case, as is a common option for 'raw' data storage - it was actually quite structured. All data area were fixed length, for example, and the data was stored mostly as ASCII . I wrote them a little application that would pick off the data, including their naming (which was in a different spot compared to the data block) - and write it to DOS files. It was a relatively easy one. Data locations could be seperated by notation in the header of each area as it comes up, or in a header, acting as a surrogate for a FAT (not really different than many metadata files). The thing you need is an absolute sector reader and some patience. You then write an algorithm to grab up the data and write it in an accessible format. Good Hunting!
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