Hard Drive Error HELP!!!

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QuasarFTW

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Hello, My Hard drive what i watch movies/tv shows of onto my tv has a error now. So Basically what happened is a message came up saying "Fix Drive" or "Continue without scanning" and i clicked Fix drive as a movie i just got would not show up on my drive anymore...

So now when i plug the hard drive into my PC or media player, i cant access it or see anything in the folder, all it is now is "Local Disk (E:" and i cant run it without changing it to NTFS without losing all the files on it (Which is like 50 TV series or more), I think it was originally NTFS. So my question is how do i convert it without losing all my data or how do i fix this error???

DETAILS:
BRAND: Western Digital USB

Thanks :)
 
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Hi

Is this an internal SATA hard disk or an external USB ?
What make & model ?

If your collection of Video's is important consider getting expert help as depending on nature of fault further attempts could make things worse

you need to test for hardware faults using software recommended by hard disk manufacturer

Western Digital produces a Windows Diagnostic DLG program which works on other brands as well (but should only be allowed to try repairs on WD drives)

Seagate's Bootable DOS diagnostic disk image also works on other brands of hard disk (but not external USB disks)

If disk is dying then be prepared to try to recover files off old faulty hard disk and get a new drive. (If a repair works it is usually only temporary and...
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Hi

Is this an internal SATA hard disk or an external USB ?
What make & model ?

If your collection of Video's is important consider getting expert help as depending on nature of fault further attempts could make things worse

you need to test for hardware faults using software recommended by hard disk manufacturer

Western Digital produces a Windows Diagnostic DLG program which works on other brands as well (but should only be allowed to try repairs on WD drives)

Seagate's Bootable DOS diagnostic disk image also works on other brands of hard disk (but not external USB disks)

If disk is dying then be prepared to try to recover files off old faulty hard disk and get a new drive. (If a repair works it is usually only temporary and problem often re occurs later on)

TestDisk / PhotoRec suit may work
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk


best of luck

Mike Barnes
 
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QuasarFTW

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Hello, Thanks for the reply and the helpful information... My hard drive is a Western digital by the way and it is a usb hard drive. :( Hopefully what you said works.

Thanks

 
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