Need Help with Ext. HD

evol.idiot · 06-16-2005, 01:06 PM

Hello Everyone. I have a 300 gb. internal hard drive that I use as an external one for my laptop. Today it became corrupted somehow. When I click on the drive, it come up with "the disk in drive e: is not formated. do you want to format now". Of course I don't since I have data on the drive. I actaully had this problem before, adn I fixed it by putting in the command chkdsk e: /f. But now when I run that command, it says someting like "chkdsk cannot run on a RAW drive". I have been trying to fix this for a couple of hours now. I would appreciate any help.

ebackhus · 06-16-2005, 01:25 PM

Have you tried running it in a desktop machine?

evol.idiot · 06-16-2005, 01:31 PM

yes, I have. I get the same response.

~~whodat~~ · 06-16-2005, 01:35 PM

greetings
can you do a virus check on that external?

evol.idiot · 06-16-2005, 02:25 PM

I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a virus. That hard dirve and the laptop is never used to go online. I can tell when this problem started. It bacame like this when I unplugged the hard drive from my laptop without using the tool on the taskbar that should've been used.

**johnwill** · 06-16-2005, 08:43 PM

Take a look at PC Inspector, it appears you have corrupted the partition table.

evol.idiot · 06-17-2005, 07:57 AM

I haven't had much success retrieving any of my data. Is there a way to repair the partition table?

evol.idiot · 06-17-2005, 08:48 AM

I want to thank everyone for their attempt to help me. I was looking through some of the old threads and found a mention of a program called partition table doctor. It's a very simple program that fixed my problem. I appreciate everyone who took the time to look and consider my problem.

06-16-2005, 01:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
evol.idiot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP	Need Help with Ext. HD Hello Everyone. I have a 300 gb. internal hard drive that I use as an external one for my laptop. Today it became corrupted somehow. When I click on the drive, it come up with "the disk in drive e: is not formated. do you want to format now". Of course I don't since I have data on the drive. I actaully had this problem before, adn I fixed it by putting in the command chkdsk e: /f. But now when I run that command, it says someting like "chkdsk cannot run on a RAW drive". I have been trying to fix this for a couple of hours now. I would appreciate any help.

06-16-2005, 01:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,294 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	Have you tried running it in a desktop machine? __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.

06-16-2005, 08:43 PM	#6 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,787 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Take a look at PC Inspector, it appears you have corrupted the partition table. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

06-16-2005, 01:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
evol.idiot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP	yes, I have. I get the same response.

06-16-2005, 01:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
~~whodat~~ Register user Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 5,931 OS: XP	greetings can you do a virus check on that external?

06-16-2005, 02:25 PM	#5 (permalink)
evol.idiot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP	I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a virus. That hard dirve and the laptop is never used to go online. I can tell when this problem started. It bacame like this when I unplugged the hard drive from my laptop without using the tool on the taskbar that should've been used.

06-17-2005, 07:57 AM	#7 (permalink)
evol.idiot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP	I haven't had much success retrieving any of my data. Is there a way to repair the partition table?

06-17-2005, 08:48 AM	#8 (permalink)
evol.idiot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP	I want to thank everyone for their attempt to help me. I was looking through some of the old threads and found a mention of a program called partition table doctor. It's a very simple program that fixed my problem. I appreciate everyone who took the time to look and consider my problem.