Thread: Computers Has Anyone Had a USB HD get a RAW partition error?
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Old 06-02-2014, 07:31 AM   #10
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Are you familiar with FAT, FAT32, NTFS. They are file structures or formats that keep track of where the information actually ends up on the physical discs.
RAW is bit-level. There are no file structures or file systems. RAW is just that, raw.

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Well, if a USB drive starts to physically wear down, or if the power to it is removed at just the right time, ie the middle of a write, it loses critical bits that tell how the whole structure is arranged. The structure is still there, but the boot sector doesn't know how to navigate it.
If you have a partial RAW partition, it's much, much different than having a couple of missing files or corruption in a file system.

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This is what I'm doing now, which is easUS. This link probably explains the situation better than me

http://www.easeus.com/resource/raw-f...em-to-ntfs.htm
OK, that makes much more sense. You're trying to restore the RAW image to a useable format. EaseUS can indeed do that as can DriveImage XML which is my tool of choice.

The safest course of action is to restore the RAW partition to another physical drive if you can.
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