The first idea occurs to you might be to format the external drive using Disk Management and you could get the error message that “ The format did not complete successfully”. The external hard drive is infected with virus.Ĭonvert RAW to NTFS using CMD on external driveĪs what mentioned before, you can’t open the RAW external drive successfully in File Explorer, it is necessary to fix RAW external drive to recognized file system like NTFS or FAT32 to make use of your drive. There are bad sectors on the external drive. Generally speaking, external drive becoming RAW format can be caused by the following events:ĭisconnect the external drive improperly.įormat the external drive unsuccessfully. Thus, you will be unable to access the external drive. If your drive has not been formatted or formatted with an unknown file system, it can show as RAW format in Windows 11/10 Disk Management and not show properly in File Explorer. Can you tell me how to convert external drive from RAW to NTFS? Thanks!” I open Disk Management and see my external drive becomes RAW format, not NTFS as before. But I find my external drive not recognized normally and not showing capacity in File Explorer. Now I connect it to my computer where Windows 10 installed on to transfer some files to it.

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