My Harddrive Partition Went from NTFS to RAW [Archive]

itisme1760

Feb 2, 2009, 10:33 PM

How is it that my hard drive partition for Windows XP go from NTFS to RAW. I found this out when I was trying to defrag the Windows side, and found out that none of the disk defraggers worked. How would I convert the HD from RAW to NTFS without losing all my data? Thanks.

dvdhsu

Feb 2, 2009, 11:02 PM

How is it that my hard drive partition for Windows XP go from NTFS to RAW. I found this out when I was trying to defrag the Windows side, and found out that none of the disk defraggers worked. How would I convert the HD from RAW to NTFS without losing all my data? Thanks.
Erm...
Backup, and reinstall?
Good Luck!

itisme1760

Feb 2, 2009, 11:05 PM

Is there an alternative method? I am really hesitant on doing this as I have a few games that are SecuROM and I do not want them to act up, stupid copy protection.

VPrime

Feb 3, 2009, 12:31 AM

Is there an alternative method? I am really hesitant on doing this as I have a few games that are SecuROM and I do not want them to act up, stupid copy protection.

Why would they act up? You would be reinstalling them on a formatted system, shouldnt be any issue at all.

Stridder44

Feb 3, 2009, 12:32 AM

Is there an alternative method? I am really hesitant on doing this as I have a few games that are SecuROM and I do not want them to act up, stupid copy protection.

It's a fresh installation.

Act up? Explain.