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clarky_462

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I have a 1TB Seagate hard drive which I was using over my home network. It was not working over the network so I plugged it directly into my computer to test it and though it took a while it was working fine. I turned off my computer and came back later to open it and though it was being recognized by my computer I could not access it. After clicking on it it freezes for about 2 minutes and then a dialog box comes up saying something along the lines of "Parameters are incorrect." and does not open. After some frustration i turned off my computer and came back later. Now it does not come up in My Computer. I checked Device Manager it is there but not in Disc Management only device manager. I would just like to access it to transfer files to another drive. Any tips would be appreciated.
 
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Santanu_Saha

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So this gets a little tricky because just because “My Computer” isn’t seeing the drive it does not mean the computer is not seeing the drive. You would need to go to disk management and then see if it is reporting as a mass storage device in the machine. If it is then it is likely that the drives problem is a MBR (master boot record/partition record) problem that can easily be fixed with something like a remote recovery. The other option is to run data recovery software on it and you should be able to tree the hard drive, move the files off, repartition/reformat, and move the data back. If it is not being seen in disk management then it is likely a communication problem with the USB enclosure (box holding the hard drive) and the computer. Usually popping the enclosure open and then slaving it or putting it in a new enclosure fixes that problem.
 
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