HELP! External Hard Drive Problem

donbaly · 11-04-2009, 02:45 PM

Please help! my 80GB external laptop hard drive failed. windows xp saw it as RAW file system. when i ran chkdsk on windows, i got an error. i tried formatting, but format could not be completed. i used testdisk to rebild the boot sector and MFT. still formatting could not complete. i then booted an ubuntu live usb, ran mkfs.ext3, then unallocated it and formated to ntfs using gparted. now when i connect it to windows xp, it see it as RAW file; and testdisk and partition magic cannot see it, and when i run chkdsk in windows i get "cannot open volume for direct access". though drive capacity can be seen in windows computer management as a blank file system. please how can i get the drive to start working properly and accessible as an ntsf filesystem in windows? thanks in advance!!!

donbaly · 11-04-2009, 08:01 PM

finally, i was able to get my hard drive working.

i formatted it to .ext2 filesysytem using ubuntu LIVE USB. the connected it to my windows machine and formated it to NTFS using Acronis Disk Director. when i ran chkdsk, no errors were found again on the drive.

Linux is excellent!!!!

**wmorri** · 11-04-2009, 10:10 PM

Hi,

Glad you were able to fix your problem.

Cheers!

11-04-2009, 02:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
donbaly Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 10 OS: Windows XP SP2	HELP! External Hard Drive Problem Please help! my 80GB external laptop hard drive failed. windows xp saw it as RAW file system. when i ran chkdsk on windows, i got an error. i tried formatting, but format could not be completed. i used testdisk to rebild the boot sector and MFT. still formatting could not complete. i then booted an ubuntu live usb, ran mkfs.ext3, then unallocated it and formated to ntfs using gparted. now when i connect it to windows xp, it see it as RAW file; and testdisk and partition magic cannot see it, and when i run chkdsk in windows i get "cannot open volume for direct access". though drive capacity can be seen in windows computer management as a blank file system. please how can i get the drive to start working properly and accessible as an ntsf filesystem in windows? thanks in advance!!!

11-04-2009, 08:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
donbaly Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 10 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: HELP! External Hard Drive Problem finally, i was able to get my hard drive working. i formatted it to .ext2 filesysytem using ubuntu LIVE USB. the connected it to my windows machine and formated it to NTFS using Acronis Disk Director. when i ran chkdsk, no errors were found again on the drive. Linux is excellent!!!!

11-04-2009, 10:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,811 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: HELP! External Hard Drive Problem Hi, Glad you were able to fix your problem. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!