An old 1TB ext HDD of mine has been broken for the longest time. My cat (in his infancy) pulled the cord of it and it was resting on a desk, it fell and immediately turned off.
I recently bought a cheap HDD dock because I decided to go through old HDD's and decided to give the broken one a try, so I carefully removed all the casing and saw that the main damage was done to the part of the casing that operated as a DC adapter/firewire port.
I removed that piece too, and was left with a regular HDD.
Today I popped in the HDD after being certain that other HDD's were being read (they were), and it was never recognized by Windows and didnt appear on My Computer. I could hear the drive spinning, but couldnt see it anywhere.
I read somewhere to check in Disk Management to see if you could find the drive, and it appears there as Disk 2. However, therein I am prompted to initialize the drive as either a MBR (Master Boot Record) or GUID Partition.
I didnt select either, and cancelled the operation, safely removed the hardware, and posted here.
What should I do? Do I have to contact a professional to physically repair the drive? Should I select one of those options?
Thank you for your time.
I recently bought a cheap HDD dock because I decided to go through old HDD's and decided to give the broken one a try, so I carefully removed all the casing and saw that the main damage was done to the part of the casing that operated as a DC adapter/firewire port.
I removed that piece too, and was left with a regular HDD.
Today I popped in the HDD after being certain that other HDD's were being read (they were), and it was never recognized by Windows and didnt appear on My Computer. I could hear the drive spinning, but couldnt see it anywhere.
I read somewhere to check in Disk Management to see if you could find the drive, and it appears there as Disk 2. However, therein I am prompted to initialize the drive as either a MBR (Master Boot Record) or GUID Partition.
I didnt select either, and cancelled the operation, safely removed the hardware, and posted here.
What should I do? Do I have to contact a professional to physically repair the drive? Should I select one of those options?
Thank you for your time.
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