I have my 3.5" external hard drive connected to my laptop and the power supply to the external drive lost power all of a sudden and when i re-connected it to my laptop now it doesnt show up on Windows Explorer. when i check the drive's status under "Disk Managemnet" it now says the file system is "RAW" instead of NTFS. it then asks me if i want to format the drive? i have about 700GB worth of data on it that i cannot afford to lose.
also checked the Windows Log on Event Viewer and one of the many details say:
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1."
"The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block."
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume E:."
this keeps repeating along with other error messages..
i have been searching for a solution on google and right now i am guessing that the MBR or partition table is damaged? how would i fix this or does anyone know if the problem is something else? i really dont want to mess around with my options to save the drive just in case i render the data is un-recoverable.
How can i restore this drive back to the point when it was still working with all my data on it still intact?
also checked the Windows Log on Event Viewer and one of the many details say:
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1."
"The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block."
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume E:."
this keeps repeating along with other error messages..
i have been searching for a solution on google and right now i am guessing that the MBR or partition table is damaged? how would i fix this or does anyone know if the problem is something else? i really dont want to mess around with my options to save the drive just in case i render the data is un-recoverable.
How can i restore this drive back to the point when it was still working with all my data on it still intact?