External HDD wont work and was always asked to format it

[marx_6]

Please help.. my external hdd is unreadable and i was i asked to format the drive before i could use it.. tried all the things that were mentioned above and nothing works.. please help

 

[lonewolf7]

Than try it.

Plug in the drive, bring up CMD and type chkdsk X: /f/r (X is the example drive letter)

Good luck.