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RAW hard drive

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ianc4

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Oct 5, 2006
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simple question with no answers... i have a external hard drive that is in RAW .. i don,t care about data recovery, i just want to convert it to NTFS or FAT32 so i can use it it on xp..please help i,ve searched long and hard...serious thanks.
 
NO ..but thanks 4 reply..windows will not format RAW DRIVE.
 
So are you saying you can't use Disk Management to delete the RAW partition then create another? If that is the case, then you probably want to obtain a disk zeroing utility, probably from the drive manufacturer, zero the drive and proceed from there.
 
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