External Hard Drive

Dink2D · 12-10-2007, 01:48 AM

I have a simpletech 250gb external hard drive, that up and until tonight was giving me no problems. I was in the midst of using a program that had a file stored on the drive (Dreamweaver-web files) and I had the power disconnected (friends baby pulled my power cord). So now, ever since then I can't get my drive to be recognized and it seems to freeze up my computers when I turn it on. It is recognized in my device manager but not in my explorer, and I ran the TestDisc program but it's not really finding anything, and I really can't lose the data on this thing.

Anyone know how to fix this?

**Deleted090308** · 12-10-2007, 04:39 AM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

Run TestDisk again - but follow these steps:

A. At the first window, select “No Log” and press the <Enter> key.
B. Select which drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and <Enter>.
C. Select partition type – Intel if it’s a PC then <Enter>.
D. Choose Advanced > press <Enter>.
E. Choose Boot > press <Enter>.

A new screen will appear. Please post back with a screenshot.

12-10-2007, 01:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
Dink2D Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP2	External Hard Drive I have a simpletech 250gb external hard drive, that up and until tonight was giving me no problems. I was in the midst of using a program that had a file stored on the drive (Dreamweaver-web files) and I had the power disconnected (friends baby pulled my power cord). So now, ever since then I can't get my drive to be recognized and it seems to freeze up my computers when I turn it on. It is recognized in my device manager but not in my explorer, and I ran the TestDisc program but it's not really finding anything, and I really can't lose the data on this thing. Anyone know how to fix this?

12-10-2007, 04:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: External Hard Drive Hi, welcome to TSF. Run TestDisk again - but follow these steps: A. At the first window, select “No Log” and press the <Enter> key. B. Select which drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and <Enter>. C. Select partition type – Intel if it’s a PC then <Enter>. D. Choose Advanced > press <Enter>. E. Choose Boot > press <Enter>. A new screen will appear. Please post back with a screenshot.