During a windows update, I unplugged a USB connected hard drive. To my surprise, the computer immediately shut down. Windows was probably storing some temporary files on the drive, and I didn't worry much about it until next boot. Now, chkdsk, dskmgmt, and all other utilities aren't recognizing the drive. I tried connecting with SATA, and alas, the problem persists. The USB drive was working properly before, and other drives still work on the same SATA to USB hardware. Is there anything I can do to try and recover the drive?
Is This Drive Unrecoverable?
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thejackal85
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When the unit is plugged in, do you feel the CD spinning inside? Does this external have its own power source?
Shaun o
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If the drive is not even showing in disk management of windows.
Then there are two causes the file allocation table of the drive has been damaged or corrupted due to you pulling power from the drive during mid operation of it.
If the drive is showing in disk management Then you need to run a program that will find the master file allocation table found on the drive to rebuild the data structure of the drive so files can then be seen, accessed.
Or your choice is to reinitialize the disk, by formatting where a new file allocation table will be written to the drive.
Is the drive seen in windows explorer, or disk management. Yes or No ?
If so click on search type CMD.
In the search result windows to the top left right click on CMD and select run as admin.
At the command prompt in the dos box type: Chkdsk D: /F
D: being the drive letter, so for example what the drive letter was on your system of the Usb external drive.
After the first command type at the dos prompt Chkdsk D: /R
Again where D is you should put the drive letter of what your external USB drive was.
This should rebuild the drive structure of file allocation table of the drive.
But only providing that the drive at least shows in disk management.
Good luck.
Then there are two causes the file allocation table of the drive has been damaged or corrupted due to you pulling power from the drive during mid operation of it.
If the drive is showing in disk management Then you need to run a program that will find the master file allocation table found on the drive to rebuild the data structure of the drive so files can then be seen, accessed.
Or your choice is to reinitialize the disk, by formatting where a new file allocation table will be written to the drive.
Is the drive seen in windows explorer, or disk management. Yes or No ?
If so click on search type CMD.
In the search result windows to the top left right click on CMD and select run as admin.
At the command prompt in the dos box type: Chkdsk D: /F
D: being the drive letter, so for example what the drive letter was on your system of the Usb external drive.
After the first command type at the dos prompt Chkdsk D: /R
Again where D is you should put the drive letter of what your external USB drive was.
This should rebuild the drive structure of file allocation table of the drive.
But only providing that the drive at least shows in disk management.
Good luck.
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