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Meelapo · 12-05-2015, 11:07 AM

I'm not very smart when it comes to hard drives so I could use some help. A month ago I purchased a used computer from Kijiji in order to act as my media server so that I could move all my DVDs and Blurays to the basement and just stream them. I ended up buying a Dell T3500 and then purchasing a 4TB hard drive.

When I installed the drive I had to update the BIOS and install some new Windows drivers but once I did the BIOS was able to see the full drive space and Windows recognized it too. Everything seemed okay.

I was happily archiving when a week ago I did a reboot of the server and when it came back up the Windows said the 4TB drive was in a RAW state and that it needed to be formatted. The drive was approximately 2.5-3TB full of data. I wasn't sure how to recover and I had maybe 25% of my stuff on my ripping machine (Mac) so I decided to start all over again.

Fast forward to last night and the same thing happened. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? Is there something I'm doing wrong in terms of BIOS and/or operating system configuration? I'd like to use the large drive size but something is causing it to be recognized as RAW after a reboot.

Any help would be excellent!

12-05-2015, 11:07 AM	#1
Meelapo Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Dec 2006 Exp:	Hard Drive Recovery I'm not very smart when it comes to hard drives so I could use some help. A month ago I purchased a used computer from Kijiji in order to act as my media server so that I could move all my DVDs and Blurays to the basement and just stream them. I ended up buying a Dell T3500 and then purchasing a 4TB hard drive. When I installed the drive I had to update the BIOS and install some new Windows drivers but once I did the BIOS was able to see the full drive space and Windows recognized it too. Everything seemed okay. I was happily archiving when a week ago I did a reboot of the server and when it came back up the Windows said the 4TB drive was in a RAW state and that it needed to be formatted. The drive was approximately 2.5-3TB full of data. I wasn't sure how to recover and I had maybe 25% of my stuff on my ripping machine (Mac) so I decided to start all over again. Fast forward to last night and the same thing happened. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? Is there something I'm doing wrong in terms of BIOS and/or operating system configuration? I'd like to use the large drive size but something is causing it to be recognized as RAW after a reboot. Any help would be excellent!