Hello to all!
I really hope to get a solution to this problem as I have lots of important data on my drive. I got here through a thread answered by Deleted090308 that knew alot about using testdisk. So any help from him or anyone else would be greatly appreciated ray:
To the subject:
I have a 1TB external HD that was working fine for long time.
Yesterday I connected it to my pc running win7, and I got a windows prompt that there are errors on the disk and it asked me if I'd like to scan and fix them, which I said yes. After a quick search it said it found errors and fixed them for me, and eversince I can't access my drive.
it is reccognized in the taskbar, and in my computer it shows as "Local Disk" but it really slows everything and I can't really access the drive. It doesn't show the drive's LABEL or size or anything, it seems like it's just loaded the drivers right but nothing else.
I have read that Testdisk can help, and I tried doing the regular steps, of analize - quick search - when clicking "P" I can see my files - then "Write" and restart the system, but the problem remains!
because the drive is connected, startup takes forever, and I can't access or see the file on the drive.
I also get "The drive is not formatted" message, which ofcourse I ignore.
When going to "Boot sector recovery" it says Boot sector OK, Backup Boot sector OK, and @ "Repair MFT" I get MFT and MFT Mirror Bad...
I have only one partition on the disk, it's NTFS and it shows right up as bootable (with *)..
I can see all of my files, and it seems lie all I need to do is rewrite the file table, but I don't have a clue on how to do that.....
Any help would be highly appreciated!
thank you!!!
I really hope to get a solution to this problem as I have lots of important data on my drive. I got here through a thread answered by Deleted090308 that knew alot about using testdisk. So any help from him or anyone else would be greatly appreciated ray:
To the subject:
I have a 1TB external HD that was working fine for long time.
Yesterday I connected it to my pc running win7, and I got a windows prompt that there are errors on the disk and it asked me if I'd like to scan and fix them, which I said yes. After a quick search it said it found errors and fixed them for me, and eversince I can't access my drive.
it is reccognized in the taskbar, and in my computer it shows as "Local Disk" but it really slows everything and I can't really access the drive. It doesn't show the drive's LABEL or size or anything, it seems like it's just loaded the drivers right but nothing else.
I have read that Testdisk can help, and I tried doing the regular steps, of analize - quick search - when clicking "P" I can see my files - then "Write" and restart the system, but the problem remains!
because the drive is connected, startup takes forever, and I can't access or see the file on the drive.
I also get "The drive is not formatted" message, which ofcourse I ignore.
When going to "Boot sector recovery" it says Boot sector OK, Backup Boot sector OK, and @ "Repair MFT" I get MFT and MFT Mirror Bad...
I have only one partition on the disk, it's NTFS and it shows right up as bootable (with *)..
I can see all of my files, and it seems lie all I need to do is rewrite the file table, but I don't have a clue on how to do that.....
Any help would be highly appreciated!
thank you!!!