Fixed - Backup Drive appear as RAW
by CM Lim May 26, 2018 BACKUP DRIVE STOP WORKING, WHY? On the 1st of May 2018 (Labour day ), my backup drive (USB 2TB external) decided not to be recognized by my desktop PC for no apparent reason, not dead but just refused to show its content or existence no matter how many times I try reconnecting it. In the Windows Disk Management screen, all known storage were shown as "NTFS" format, the malfunctioned backup drive was shown as "RAW" - t hanks for the holiday surprise. SEARCH FOR SILVER BULLET What followed were frenzied search on the net for solution and easily anyone can google a few pages of people in the same plight or a slew of websites providing recovery solution pertaining to sudden failure of this nature, I didn't know it is such a commonplace. From here one can realize how much faith to really put into any of these flash memory drive or HDD for backup, including the much touted SSD. The verdict is, no one can assure the durability much l
