[SOLVED] External HD not formatted all of a sudden - Page 2

jam_rich · 05-18-2008, 12:37 PM

And another happy customer! Just got that lovely feeling of relief as I've managed to rescue all my music and photos. Thanks very much for all the above advice - it worked a treat.

turpdog · 07-10-2008, 07:57 AM

Hello eneles,

I was following your steps that you posted to solve the needing to format the hard drive again, and everything was falling into place. I got to the point where I ran TestDisk and figured out that the boot sector was damaged. I then started to run TestDisk again so I could choose "Boot" so I could repair FAT but now my computer can not find the external harddrive. I have switched cables, shut down and started up again, totally powered down computer unplugged and started up again, nothing helps to find the drive. Diskmanagement tells me there is a drive but it is not named with a letter.

I tried to plug the drive into another laptop and it does not recogize it and disk management does not show it as well. No weird noises coming from the hard drive. In your experience is there anything that can be done now or is all lost?

**Deleted090308** · 07-10-2008, 09:19 AM

@turpdog: Please start a thread of your own where you tell us what computer and external HDD you have.

05-18-2008, 12:37 PM	#21 (permalink)
jam_rich Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Re: [SOLVED] External HD not formatted all of a sudden And another happy customer! Just got that lovely feeling of relief as I've managed to rescue all my music and photos. Thanks very much for all the above advice - it worked a treat.

07-10-2008, 07:57 AM	#22 (permalink)
turpdog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 10 OS: xp	Re: [SOLVED] External HD not formatted all of a sudden Hello eneles, I was following your steps that you posted to solve the needing to format the hard drive again, and everything was falling into place. I got to the point where I ran TestDisk and figured out that the boot sector was damaged. I then started to run TestDisk again so I could choose "Boot" so I could repair FAT but now my computer can not find the external harddrive. I have switched cables, shut down and started up again, totally powered down computer unplugged and started up again, nothing helps to find the drive. Diskmanagement tells me there is a drive but it is not named with a letter. I tried to plug the drive into another laptop and it does not recogize it and disk management does not show it as well. No weird noises coming from the hard drive. In your experience is there anything that can be done now or is all lost?

07-10-2008, 09:19 AM	#23 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: [SOLVED] External HD not formatted all of a sudden @turpdog: Please start a thread of your own where you tell us what computer and external HDD you have.