Raster to Geodatabase turns Raster into Polygon

[BaileyBellavance]

I have a raster (.tif) on a hard drive that I have tried to (on multiple computers) import into a File Geodatabase and Personal Geodatabase. The tool will run and has been taking 6-8 hours every time. The tool runs successfully, but when I add the raster into a map document, it is just a polygon not a raster. I'm not sure why this is happening and I have tried many avenues to importing this raster into a GDB (Import from Catalog, Export from Pro and Map, Copy Raster) but nothing seems to produce a result other than this mysterious polygon.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[George_Thompson]

I would not recommend loading the raster into the geodatabase. I would store the raster on disk and reference it via the Mosaic Dataset; What is a mosaic dataset?—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

Here is another good source of information related to Imagery - ArcGIS Imagery Workflows | ArcGIS 

I would also move this to another section like Imagery and Remote Sensing‌

[Anonymous User]

Hi Bailey, I've moved this to the Imagery space as George suggested to help ensure it gets further visibility for anyone else interested in or who can contribute to this question.