Under XP, I just ran Disk Defragmenter on my C: drive, a 120-gig Seagate,
with no problem.

But when I tried to defrag my primary slave drive, a 40-gig Western Digital,
I got a
message that the drive might be corrupted and that I should run CHKDSK
(checkdisk).

But checkdisk says the drive is not available because the file system on it
is RAW!

Yet the drive works fine, no problems.

I scanned the drive with WD's diagnostic program and it found no problems.

What could be causing this?

I transferred the drive to another computer running Win98_SE and was able to
run Scandisk....found a lot of severely damaged files, mostly in Recycled. I
couldn't delete that folder under Dos or Windows. So I'm just going to
reformat.


"Ken_B" <kb3XXX@usa.com> wrote in message
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> Under XP, I just ran Disk Defragmenter on my C: drive, a 120-gig Seagate,
> with no problem.
>
> But when I tried to defrag my primary slave drive, a 40-gig Western
> Digital,
> I got a
> message that the drive might be corrupted and that I should run CHKDSK
> (checkdisk).
>
> But checkdisk says the drive is not available because the file system on
> it
> is RAW!
>
> Yet the drive works fine, no problems.
>
> I scanned the drive with WD's diagnostic program and it found no
> problems.
>
> What could be causing this?
>
>