Alright, so I was USING Window Washer (a program that securely deletes files) and I was about to start washing the free space of my computer, which I have done many times before. However, it wouldn't run. So I suspected it was a disk error or something. So I ran dskchk (first from windows, then from the command prompt on reboot), and it keeps complaining about how the file system is RAW. When I look at the disk in My Computer, it says that it's NTFS. All of the solutions that I've found involve a REFORMAT. Please tell me there's another WAY, because this is a shared computer and I can't reformat.hmmm, when I saw RAW in the topic, I was pretty sure it was a hooped drive; however from the sounds of things it is still booting up properly?


And for clarification we are referring to the chkdsk utility, correct?the computer has yet to stop booting on me.

and yes, the chkdsk utility that windows comes with.

thanx for the reply, im still googling for the answerOK.

What about running chkdsk from within windows? does that recognize it as RAW or NTFS?

are we talking about the drive with windows installed, or a data drive?

Quote from: BC_Programmer on April 04, 2009, 12:58:57 PM

OK.

What about running chkdsk from within windows? does that recognize it as RAW or NTFS?

I tried running it from within windows, and it says "windows was unable to complete the disk check", so i dont know if it's treating it as NTFS or RAW. DiskInternals Undelete claims that it is NTFS and that it has bad CLUSTERS if thats any help.

are we talking about the drive with windows installed, or a data drive?

the drive with windows installed

If the boot drive was RAW it would not boot....
Be clearer on what you are seeing on your end...

It may only be one drive but from the sounds of it there is more than one partition...unless there is an external drive involved in this dilemna.