I have a western digital external hard drive i use for a back up. I have a lot of data on it. Suddenly it is not accessible anymore. I see the drive in my computer but when I click on the drive it says "The drive E is not formatted. Format now?
However if I run the western digital scan utility it passes all tests.
When i run chkdsk e: it says:
"The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
This drive was formatted as an ntfs file system. It seems to me like it forgot what filesystem it is. Is there a way to reset that without formatting or any other suggestions?
thanks
However if I run the western digital scan utility it passes all tests.
When i run chkdsk e: it says:
"The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
This drive was formatted as an ntfs file system. It seems to me like it forgot what filesystem it is. Is there a way to reset that without formatting or any other suggestions?
thanks