Getting "This USB Drive Needs To Be Formatted" Message

I don’t have Linux and TechloQ blocks WSL

Note, running chkdsk f: /f gave me “the type of file system is RAW and is not Available”

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Yup, means that partition info is lost. A tool like Testdisk from Cg Security https://www.cgsecurity.org/ can help.

I would try DMDE like someone smart posted here :wink:

or a partition recovery tool, but in my experience, DMDE does a better job at recovering without potentially messing up the partition. Or you can make a disk image and then recover from there.

Thanks, I want something that Claude can do for me via the CLI though :blush:

Sorry about the emoji @mods - This really needed it

claude tried that and It wasn’t able to create the disk Image

yes, It was admin powershell and not a permission issue

I believe you can use DMDE with CLI, but don’t ask me, ask claude

Interesting, the fact that its RAW shouldn’t stop you from making an image. I wonder if there’s a deeper issue

You’re gonna kill me but spin up since Linux vm or vps or something. Linux has all the tools and is an amazing place for Claude to play around

I don’t believe in killing people

Again, its a filtered laptop and they don’t allow Linux

You can’t create a Linux VM on virtual box or other VM programs?

And ES file explorer.