I have a 400GB Western Digital MyBook External HDD, it was working fine before, I turned it off and when I turned it on again it was not properly recognised by My Computer and when I tried to open it I got this message:
"Disk is not formatted
The disk in drive P is not formatted.
Do you want to format it now? [Y/N]"
I've seen many threads regarding this issue and I have tried everything they suggest, i.e. TestDisk - nothing happens when I reboot, Seagate's diagnostic utility - everything comes out as PASS, but I still can't access the files on the HDD, etc.
I tried plugging it into a different USB port and got the same result. I then tried plugging it into another PC and it didn't recognise it in My Computer at all.
Any help would be much appreciated. :smile:
PS. Please try and keep your reply as simple as possible!
EDIT: I'd actually just like to add that when I tried TestDisk I got these results:
Boot sector
Status: OK
Backup boot sector
Status: OK
Sectors are identical.
I then have the option of "Quit", "List" (Which doesn't work, "Filesystem seems to be damaged"), "Rebuild BS" (Which doesn't seem to do anything), "Repair MFT" ("Can't read NTFS MFT") and "Dump".
"Disk is not formatted
The disk in drive P is not formatted.
Do you want to format it now? [Y/N]"
I've seen many threads regarding this issue and I have tried everything they suggest, i.e. TestDisk - nothing happens when I reboot, Seagate's diagnostic utility - everything comes out as PASS, but I still can't access the files on the HDD, etc.
I tried plugging it into a different USB port and got the same result. I then tried plugging it into another PC and it didn't recognise it in My Computer at all.
Any help would be much appreciated. :smile:
PS. Please try and keep your reply as simple as possible!
EDIT: I'd actually just like to add that when I tried TestDisk I got these results:
Boot sector
Status: OK
Backup boot sector
Status: OK
Sectors are identical.
I then have the option of "Quit", "List" (Which doesn't work, "Filesystem seems to be damaged"), "Rebuild BS" (Which doesn't seem to do anything), "Repair MFT" ("Can't read NTFS MFT") and "Dump".