Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > External HD data loss

External HD data loss

Forum Storage : Hard Disks - External HD data loss

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
horrorific   10-05-2008 at 02:59:10 AM

For some reason, my external HD has suddenly decided to stop working. Each time I try to get into it I get an error telling me I have to format it before I can use it. How or why this is happening I don't know, but I do know that about 400GB of my personal files are trapped there and I desperately need help in retrieving them.

Also, something I noticed while trying to sort this out is that the file type is now "RAW" when it used to be NTFS (or fat32, I don't remember).

Can someone please help me?

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > External HD data loss
Go to:

There are 1084 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.288 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them