- Aug 15, 2016
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I stopped being able to access my external hard drive a few days ago. After using several programs and google searches to find out what was wrong or if it could be fixed I ended up creating a new volume for my disk. It sort of worked because now I can see it appears listed next to the other hard drives but when I attempt to access it it says I need to format the drive. I was afraid my data got deleted but I can see using an Active Partition Recovery program that my data is still there, I just can't access it. The program can't recover the files because it says : "Partition starts from zero sector on the device. Regular partitioning tools cannot create partitions starting from zero sector, so it can be assumed that someone copied boot sector to zero sector manually and resulting partition is invalid"
I don't know what that means but it then says: "All you can try is to correct boot sector or its copy (if its damaged) using Fix Boot Sector... command from partition menu."
I've found that but I am now stuck on what to do next. How do I proceed? Is there an easier way to recover my data or revert the disk back to its original state?
I screenshotted the Fix Boot Sector page:
http://imgur.com/wtZciak
I don't know what that means but it then says: "All you can try is to correct boot sector or its copy (if its damaged) using Fix Boot Sector... command from partition menu."
I've found that but I am now stuck on what to do next. How do I proceed? Is there an easier way to recover my data or revert the disk back to its original state?
I screenshotted the Fix Boot Sector page:
http://imgur.com/wtZciak
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