Hi!
I have a 1 TB Acomdata external hard drive with three partitions. Windows was only recognizing one partition, but is now recognizing 2 out of 3. I have tried this external drive on my desktop (Vista Home Premium) and on my netbook (Windows XP) with the same results. :banghead: Here's what happened...
A few weeks ago my computer (running Vista Home Premium) had rebooted overnight but was stuck on a black screen. I tried to reboot but it would only go as far as the black screen that follows the "Welcome" Screen. I rebooted and went into the bios and found that my external drive was listed as the first boot device. I found that odd because my external is not bootable. I changed this in the bios and my PC worked fine. The external, however, is not working properly.
It has three partitions and only two are showing up (eventually) when I switch on the drive.
If I boot up the PC with the drive switched on, the same thing happens as a few weeks ago - it passes "Welcome" and then goes to the black screen and a cursor, and sits forever with the external chugging (with a red light).
I tried TestDisk and followed the instructions as posted here: Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?
TestDisk recognized all three partitions.
I thought I might need more patience, so I rebooted the PC with the external switched off, then switched it on. It took a while, but recognized partition J (as it did before), and also asked me if I wanted to scan and repair K. I did, then checked properties, and it said there was nothing on it.
I tried again. If I skip the scan and repair, it will show me the other two partitions but will list K in Explore. It seems it's K -- the bad one -- that holds up the display of the others.
Copying files from this drive to my PC is very slow now too, about 25 kb/s.
Any suggestions would really be appreciated!
Thanks!
I have a 1 TB Acomdata external hard drive with three partitions. Windows was only recognizing one partition, but is now recognizing 2 out of 3. I have tried this external drive on my desktop (Vista Home Premium) and on my netbook (Windows XP) with the same results. :banghead: Here's what happened...
A few weeks ago my computer (running Vista Home Premium) had rebooted overnight but was stuck on a black screen. I tried to reboot but it would only go as far as the black screen that follows the "Welcome" Screen. I rebooted and went into the bios and found that my external drive was listed as the first boot device. I found that odd because my external is not bootable. I changed this in the bios and my PC worked fine. The external, however, is not working properly.
It has three partitions and only two are showing up (eventually) when I switch on the drive.
If I boot up the PC with the drive switched on, the same thing happens as a few weeks ago - it passes "Welcome" and then goes to the black screen and a cursor, and sits forever with the external chugging (with a red light).
I tried TestDisk and followed the instructions as posted here: Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?
TestDisk recognized all three partitions.
I thought I might need more patience, so I rebooted the PC with the external switched off, then switched it on. It took a while, but recognized partition J (as it did before), and also asked me if I wanted to scan and repair K. I did, then checked properties, and it said there was nothing on it.
I tried again. If I skip the scan and repair, it will show me the other two partitions but will list K in Explore. It seems it's K -- the bad one -- that holds up the display of the others.
Copying files from this drive to my PC is very slow now too, about 25 kb/s.
Any suggestions would really be appreciated!
Thanks!