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Help Partition format - RAW
Hello, I have my bootable hard drive partitioned into C: and D: Recently I was having crazy lockups and problems with various tasks. After process of elimination I deleted the D: volume. Now, I'd like to format it and it wouldn't complete with a full format so I tried 'quick format' and that won't work either. The partition now reads as 'RAW' and I can't seem to do anything with it.
No, I am not trying to recover a thing. I backed up everything that I needed to an external drive. I just want to get the D: partition formatted and usable again.
It is a WD drive and the C: partition is just fine. Can a half of a hard drive go bad???
If I could format it then run chkdsk and mark bad sectors wouldn't that work?
Running Windows 7 Home Premium
two hard drives each partitioned into two
Thank you, Donna