Now the drive is useless except to display that it exists. When I attempt a 'quick format' to NTFS (Control Panel - Computer Management - Storage - disk - format) I get a message 'Virtual Disk Manager' - 'The format did not complete successfully'.
'I have a 4TB drive (3725.9GB) that I recently completed the long format (~48 hours), but during the formatting process a sudden power outage occurred, when it finished, the disk shows up in Disk management (Windows or Command prompt) as 'RAW' format. Format a RAW drive via a free partition manager.
How to format RAW Drive with CMD in Windows 10/8/7?.
