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LIL Bonsaii · 04-12-2007, 09:40 PM

Hello All,

I have a Maxtor External HD 300gb, IEEE 1394, I use the firewire cable.

For some reason I cannot access my external HD anymore. It was fine earlier tonight. I came home and went to open it and I get the following:

"F:\ is not accessible
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"

PLEASE PLEASE can anyone tell me the most simple way to get my data? I tried all the other firewire ports and NOTHING. If I go to "my computer" I can see my F drive, but it is labeled as "Local Disk" instead of the name I gave it and if I right click on the drive and go to "properties" it says that my File system is RAW and that used and free space is 0 bytes. I have no clue what RAW is and why this happened just out of no where. I right clicked on the F drive and went to TOOLS > ERROR CHECKING and nothing happens. I also tried to DEFRAG, but it won't do anything. PLEASE PLEASE HELP!

Thanks!

~ Beth

04-12-2007, 09:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
LIL Bonsaii Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Maxtor External HD not working.....help! Hello All, I have a Maxtor External HD 300gb, IEEE 1394, I use the firewire cable. For some reason I cannot access my external HD anymore. It was fine earlier tonight. I came home and went to open it and I get the following: "F:\ is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" PLEASE PLEASE can anyone tell me the most simple way to get my data? I tried all the other firewire ports and NOTHING. If I go to "my computer" I can see my F drive, but it is labeled as "Local Disk" instead of the name I gave it and if I right click on the drive and go to "properties" it says that my File system is RAW and that used and free space is 0 bytes. I have no clue what RAW is and why this happened just out of no where. I right clicked on the F drive and went to TOOLS > ERROR CHECKING and nothing happens. I also tried to DEFRAG, but it won't do anything. PLEASE PLEASE HELP! Thanks! ~ Beth