Samsung Portable External Hard Drive - HELP!

ITincompetent · Dec 7, 2014

Samsung M3 Portable 1TB is not showing up in My Computer. It has just come up with a message saying that I need to reformat my local drive. If I reformat, will I lose my files? I have looked at lots of threads but can't find the right answer.

smorizio · Dec 7, 2014

dont format the drive try using a free drive recovery tool.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva
see if it can fix the driver.

Boogieman_WD · Dec 8, 2014

Hey ITincompetent. Go ahead an follow @smorizio's advice and if doesn't work, here's a link to a thread with a couple of more solutions for data recovery: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html
You could also try accessing the drive with Linux Live CD/USB to see if you can get your data.
Would you please check what it says about the drive in Disk Management (here's how to access it: How to open Disk Management)?

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

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