Transcend 1 TB Store jet external hard disk - Uninitialized, Un-allocated

atrip · Oct 28, 2013

Hi Guys,

I have a Transcend 1 TB Store jet external hard disk which one fine day started not showing up on my computer. It shows plugged it and gets power through the USB though..

It is showing as Uninitialized and Un-allocated when checked in Disk Management Utility.

Can any one please advise me on how to get get it started without loosing the files??

Thanks
atrip

lonewolf7 · Oct 28, 2013

Try it on another system.

atrip · Oct 29, 2013

hi lonewolf7 .. yes i have tried in other systems .. no luck ..

How can i go ahead with initializing and allocating the same?

lonewolf7 · Oct 29, 2013

Ok, can you see the drive in BIOS ? Is it showing actual size ? Honestly I am afraid that the drive has gone bad, so there is a tiny hope of recovering data.

Here are two good tools to do the job, try it. And there are many out there to try. I will keep my fingers crossed.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

http://download.cnet.com/Zero-Assumption-Recovery/3000-2248_4-10061981.html

Another thing maybe hard drive is fine, it's the USB side of it that's faulty. So first try another USB cable, or try to remove the drive from the enclosure and plug it directly to the MB of a desktop system. Now see if it works. Good luck.

dareinvaders · Mar 16, 2014

Hello... just found your post... I don't know whether or not you have fixed this but I have a solution to fixing your device...

go to desktop and find your my computer shortcut... RIGHT CLICK and click on the mange option...

Go to disk management and scroll down until you find your external hard drive that will say 900 and something gb and it will say unallocated...

right click on that and select new simple volume....

CLICL next, then click next again

now choose a letter for your drive, then click next

now on this page, choose NTFS (for file system), and choose a name for the volume

click next and then click FINISH

walllah now you have a working external hard drive

Transcend girl · Jan 14, 2015

hi all, please help

i tried what you someone suggested with regards to the disk management steps but the problem comes on the section where it lists the drives. my drive is coming up as disk 1 but as unknown. it is not initiatialized, and it is unallocated. When i write click on properties, it says the device is working properly BUT under volumes it says type: unknown, status: not initialized, partition style: not applicable, capacity: 0MB, unallocated space: 0MB, and reserved space: 0MB. Have i lost everything?

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kjcos999 · Jan 18, 2015

I'm having the same problems - just suddenly happened, can't do anything in the management section as it needs to be initialised.

Someone please help.

ZoneO · Feb 10, 2015

Dear All,

Kindly note this what worked for me when I went to disk management my disk was Disk 1 on the left panel and on the right panel it shows that its allocated, when I click on the allocated area it shows dark menu, so I right click the panel the was option called “initialize disk” that let you choose between MBR and GPT (http://thestarman.narod.ru/asm/mbr/GPT.htm) when I choose MBR (Master Boot Record) nothing happen so I choose GPT (GUID Partition Table) after that formatted the disk it will tell you successful or not after formatting for me it was unsuccessful and after sometime a message popup "you can’t use your this disk you have to format” so I formatted it again and again it was successful the 3 time.

Enjoy..........

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