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Cant run CHKDSK on RAW drives

Started by doire , Jul 17 2006 06:10 AM

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doire

Posted 17 July 2006 - 06:10 AM

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What does this message mean?

I have seen this now on a few pc's when i have tried to run CHKDSK in a command prompt.

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SRX660

Posted 17 July 2006 - 07:20 AM

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Check disk needs a file system on the drives to be able to check them. Windows chkdsk needs the drives to be formatted in FAT32 or NTFS to work. RAW drives means they have not been formatted or the formatting was lost.

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doire

Posted 17 July 2006 - 07:51 AM

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Check disk needs a file system on the drives to be able to check them. Windows chkdsk needs the drives to be formatted in FAT32 or NTFS to work. RAW drives means they have not been formatted or the formatting was lost.

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And the OS was able to be installed even though the disk wasnt formatted?