Has Anyone Had a USB HD get a RAW partition error?

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by DaveNull

Maybe sober up and try to explain what's happening again.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

So you were doing a RAW data backup in EaseUS ToDo Backup when the power hit?

It's probably messed up.

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.

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.

I was watching TV, nothing to do with easUS, when the power went out.

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