Hi people,
So, I have an external hard drive that had a power supply failure.
The 152GB drive was full with media and music and other files I needed.
So, I pulled the hard drive out of the External Hard Drive Case, saw it was a Western Digital Caviar Hard Disk and slaved it up to my DVD drive.
It was recognized in bios and the device manager, however My Computer did not recognize it. I am running windows Vista 32 bit OS.
I opened up Disk Management and the disk was there, labeled as Disk 0 and was not active. Vista Disk Management recognized the file system as raw instead of the NTFS that it is.
I activated the disk and assigned it a drive letter, hoping this would fix the problem but it did not. It told me that I would have to format the drive in order to access it.
Another forum said I should download and install tweak UI. I did this, however I am not sure how this program is supposed to fix this problem.
I have tried erasing the drive letter, but the drive is still active as a simple, Basic, Raw, Healthy HDD.
I would like to access the files on this hard drive and have the ability to transfer them to the master hard drive, any suggestions?
So, I have an external hard drive that had a power supply failure.
The 152GB drive was full with media and music and other files I needed.
So, I pulled the hard drive out of the External Hard Drive Case, saw it was a Western Digital Caviar Hard Disk and slaved it up to my DVD drive.
It was recognized in bios and the device manager, however My Computer did not recognize it. I am running windows Vista 32 bit OS.
I opened up Disk Management and the disk was there, labeled as Disk 0 and was not active. Vista Disk Management recognized the file system as raw instead of the NTFS that it is.
I activated the disk and assigned it a drive letter, hoping this would fix the problem but it did not. It told me that I would have to format the drive in order to access it.
Another forum said I should download and install tweak UI. I did this, however I am not sure how this program is supposed to fix this problem.
I have tried erasing the drive letter, but the drive is still active as a simple, Basic, Raw, Healthy HDD.
I would like to access the files on this hard drive and have the ability to transfer them to the master hard drive, any suggestions?