Convert external Hard Disk drive from RAW to NTFS?

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Hello,

I have an external drive and the partition turned to RAW.I can I convert it from RAW to NTFS, please?

Thank you!

Wilfried,

@Wilfried-THIAM,

You've have a couple of ways you can do this: 1. from the command prompt or 2. from Disk Management.

If from the command prompt:

1. verify you can access the disk using a drive letter.
2. run the command on that drive letter: chkdsk /f h:
3. run the convert command on drive letter: convert h: /fs:ntfs

If you use disk management:

1. open disk management
2. right click on the drive that is now in raw format
3. format to ntfs.

@Ronnie-Wong ,

One more question.Actually I have a data on it.Just to make sure that I will not loose all the data.

Thanks!

Wilfried,

@Wilfried-THIAM ,

You will lose the data....so this may not be the way for you to do this. sorry.