I have a Samsung Story Station 2TB External Hard Drive, which has been working fine since I bought it earlier in the year.
Recently I did a clean re-install of my Windows 7 (64 bit) OS, with all the updates along with SP1. Before I did this I made sure that I backed up all my personal files, audio and video media on to the external HDD. BUT...
Since I re-installed Windows 7 I can't access the external HDD. Every time I power it up I get the message: "You need to format the disk in Drive L before you can use it. Do you want to format it now?"
If I try to click on it in Windows Explorer I get the warning: "L:\ is not Accessible... Access is Denied". The properties shows that it is FULL!
Yet in Disk Management it is recognized as: "DANNY'S BACK-UP ( L: ) Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)" This also shows that about 55% of the HDD is free with the rest used for my backed up files.
My whole life is backed up on that drive... HELP!!!!!!
Danny
Recently I did a clean re-install of my Windows 7 (64 bit) OS, with all the updates along with SP1. Before I did this I made sure that I backed up all my personal files, audio and video media on to the external HDD. BUT...
Since I re-installed Windows 7 I can't access the external HDD. Every time I power it up I get the message: "You need to format the disk in Drive L before you can use it. Do you want to format it now?"
If I try to click on it in Windows Explorer I get the warning: "L:\ is not Accessible... Access is Denied". The properties shows that it is FULL!
Yet in Disk Management it is recognized as: "DANNY'S BACK-UP ( L: ) Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)" This also shows that about 55% of the HDD is free with the rest used for my backed up files.
My whole life is backed up on that drive... HELP!!!!!!
Danny
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