cannot access D:

well i was using a cleaner on my windows xp, i think it was ccleaner,and it somehow led up to not letting me access my D: harddisk, if i go into safe mode all my files are there but i cannot access it reguarly, in safe mode it says the drive is in NTFS but normally it says RAW, can anyone help?

 

Any error message when you try to access it?
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Do you have an HP PC?

 

it says cannot access D:

i think it has to do something with it being RAW now instead of NTFS

i have a sony,

 

RAW? Dont you mean FAT?

 

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AdoboFosho:

The syntax here is not quite clear. You first wrote:

after that you wrote

"RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent of a negative in film"
www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/RAW-file-format.htm

Could you mention the exact error message? I might be misunderstanding you with the word "normally".

abri

 

the error message is

 

normal boot, my D is not accessible, i right click properties, then it says RAW with free and used space both being 0, then if i try to access it the error message arrives

on safe mode, its perfectly normal, right click properties says ntfs, all my files seem to be there as well

 

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@adobo- RAW is not a format, only FAT, FAT32, HPFS, and NTFS are formats (that I know of)

 

If you can access your folders in Safe Mode, you can try taking ownership of those folders, might be a long shot but just crazy enough to work

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

 

my format is ntfs for D, raw is what happens to it after something wrong occurs which i found out

 

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/adobofosho/hoy.jpg

 

But you said you can boot into safe mode and see your folders right?

So I suggest that maybe taking owndership of the files might help.

Boot into safe mode.
find and open your D drive.
Every folder that appears after that, follow the link instructions.
That should fix it.
If not, well keep trying.

 

heres what i found on it

Sometimes, the volume fails in such a way that it becomes RAW. In most cases the failure will be associated with a sudden reboot (per power failure or the STOP error). Several causes are possible: partition table, LDM database, or the volume boot sector corruption, or (on the NTFS volume) when certain records in both MFT and MFT mirror are damaged beyond easy recognition.

If partition is corrupted in windows, possible (but not all) symptoms are:
- Invalid media type reading drive
Abort, Retry, Fail?
- File system is displayed as 'RAW'
- Windows may ask if you want to format the drive, such as warning "disk not formatted. do you want to format now?"
- File names contain 'weird' characters
- 'Sector not found' messages

So best bet to fix the RAW problem is to reformat your D Drive.

 

so i wouldnt need to do what u stated earlier and just reformat it?

 

Yea, I never knew RAW was a drive error till i researched it just now, and all of the solutions say reformat the drive to get rid of the problem.

So yes, disregard my earlier posts about the file ownership.

 

um would reformatting involve me saving the files in D to another place b4 hand? or how would u even start to reformat

 

Since you cant access the drive in Normal Mode, boot into safe mode and copy any necessary files you want to save onto your other hard drive, but dont copy any programs, since they will not work when moved.
Other than that, you have no other options, since in safe mode you cant burn cds or use USB devices.

Question: does the D drive contain your Xp installation?

 

From website: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/RAW-file-format.htm

Do you have something on your computer that uses this RAW format and could you get rid of it?
abri

 

Abri, RAW is a kind of hard drive error as I just found out yesterday

Sometimes, the volume fails in such a way that it becomes RAW. In most cases the failure will be associated with a sudden reboot (per power failure or the STOP error). Several causes are possible: partition table, LDM database, or the volume boot sector corruption, or (on the NTFS volume) when certain records in both MFT and MFT mirror are damaged beyond easy recognition.

 

Some info here;

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/art-raw-filesystem.htm

 

RAW just means unformatted. The problem is that XP is seeing the disk as Raw instead of full of files as it does in Safe-Mode. Formatting the disk should be done only after copying all your files to another drive.

One thing you could try would be to shut down and open your computer and unplug the D: harddrive (just pulling the power plug from it). Then restart your computer. Let it realize D: drive is gone then shut it down and replug in the D: drive. Restart and see if it recognizes it correctly. It may not do any good but it may help. I'd try it before reformatting.