Hey there ! I need some help formating my harddrive from RAW to NTFS!

Hey there !!

Two days ago ive encountered a problem with my harddrive, when i was re-formating my harddrive it became raw filesystem and i noticed i couldent format it through windows utility nor through the cmd prompt. I am really asking for some help here guys , ive tried to google for answers ive turned to search for youtube. Everything i can find is file recovery from RAW but i am in no need for file recovery i just want to whipe it clean and have a NTFS drive again.

I spent all day yesterday running iCare Recovery thinking i could re-format it.  Ive still got 1months warranty on " My Passport Essential 1TB " but i havent contacted support yet since i wanted to try fixing it myself.

There are some third party applications you can use to reformat a RAW drive.

We recommend using our Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and see if possible to write zeros to the drive.

How to low level format or write zeros (full erase) to a WD hard drive or Solid State drive

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1211

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