ntfs file system being recognized as raw

December 5, 2007

Hi,

I have this interesting problem and hope someone can help me out.

I am running Windows 2003 server as the a file server and use an

external 160G USB hard disk for data backup. The external drive is

formatted using NTFS.

The problem is whenever I connected the drive to the server, the OS

won't recognize the NTFS partition. It see it as a basic disk with raw

file system. However, I can still copy file back and forth to the

external drive. Since Windows doesn't recognize the file system, it then

doesn't assign a drive letter to it automatically when the drive is

connected. I have to manually assign a drive letter every time I connect

the drive to the server. This makes the scheduled backup job difficult

to run as we rely on the end user to swap the drive without having them

to do anything on the server console.

I tried different drive and the problem still persist.

Does anyone experience this problem before?

Keith

December 6, 2007

RE: ntfs file system being recognized as raw

To resolve this problem, change the startup type of the "removable storage"

service from manual to automatic. Then, restart the computer.

"OM" wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I have this interesting problem and hope someone can help me out.

>

> I am running Windows 2003 server as the a file server and use an

> external 160G USB hard disk for data backup. The external drive is

> formatted using NTFS.

>

> The problem is whenever I connected the drive to the server, the OS

> won't recognize the NTFS partition. It see it as a basic disk with raw

> file system. However, I can still copy file back and forth to the

> external drive. Since Windows doesn't recognize the file system, it then

> doesn't assign a drive letter to it automatically when the drive is

> connected. I have to manually assign a drive letter every time I connect

> the drive to the server. This makes the scheduled backup job difficult

> to run as we rely on the end user to swap the drive without having them

> to do anything on the server console.

>

> I tried different drive and the problem still persist.

>

> Does anyone experience this problem before?

>

> Keith

>

December 6, 2007

RE: ntfs file system being recognized as raw

If that does not work, this should: