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| 626646 | 2008-01-02 07:26:00 | Hi, I've got a couple of Ext. HDDs connected via usb my computer and while I was accessing files from both, there was a power cut. Upon turning on the computer again, I tried accessing both drives and one of them kept on saying "drive H:\ is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?", whereas I can open the other drive but the contents on the root drive are folders from the other HDD and none of them are mapping properly. I tried using window's scan disk to try and repair any bad sectors or any disk errors but its not doing anything. Can anyone recommend a solution for this? Would using a recovery software/utility fix it? Any recommendations on particular softwares? Thanks. |
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| 626647 | 2008-01-02 08:00:00 | Take the HDDs out of their enclosures and hook them up in your PC as a slave (for IDE). See if it is still messed up then. Did you allow the PC to start back up with them still connected? Bad idea. This happened to a friend once and he managed to stuff both his internal boot drive and his external one. Well, the files on them that is........... |
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| 626648 | 2008-01-02 08:42:00 | hi.. Thanks for the suggestion. Will try tomorrow when I'm home. Yes, I did boot up the PC with the drives still connected actually..this kind of thing did happen to me before but instead of a power cut, someone tripped on the power cable of the enclosure and when I plugged it back in, it loaded up fine so I didn't think twice this time around and just booted it back up with it still connected. I also thought that perhaps if there were some errors, Windows' scandisk feature which loads before while booting up the PC may fix it but nothing happened then. Anyway I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best tomorrow. Thanks |
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