how to fix External HD Buffalo need to be formatted

Kttrina

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Feb 28, 2015
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I have a Buffalo external HD model HD-PE500U2 and I canno't access any files anymore and says that need to be formatted.
I tryied stellar progam to fix but it didn't reconize any files so far.
I used to use on mac and pc before it "brokes"...
Any clue how to fix it?

Thanks
 
Hey there Kttrina. Was the drive formatted in exFAT (natively supported by both Mac OS X and Windows) or did you use some kind of software to recognize and let you write on an unsupported file system format for one of the operating systems?
Other than that, I'd recommend that you try accessing the drive via Linux Live USB/CD to see if it's recognized this way and if you can get your data. If that doesn't work, I'd recommend that you try some of the data recovery options from this thread here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD