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Berto

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Well this might be kind of long but I need some help from you computer guys.

 

I had an external hard drive connected to my wireless router with family pics and what not. so anyone on my network could access it. I thought it would be a good idea to buy another external hard drive to back up all the files every 6 months or so. so we don't loose family pics in the case of a virus or something.

 

Ever since I decided to I was going to buy another hard drive I unplugged and disconnected the hard drive with all the pics on it to be on the safe side.

 

Well today I went to connect to it through the network and i could see the partition but nothing came up. Then I tried hooking it up directly via USB to the computer and when I tried to open it, a pop up said "drive not formated would you like to format now?" I said no so I wouldn't lose the files. When I select the drive and look at properties it shows '0 bytes' and also show the partition as last modified on 7/17/2007 at 5:58. Which is about the first time I tried to connect to it.

 

 

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

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is this a network attached storage device or a USB hard drive encasement? if check disk doesn;t work then i have a program for extracting data from hd's with bad partitions. its worth a shot at least if you want the program. i can send it via ....... pm me
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what is chkdsk and how do I run it?

 

trowa i'm not sure what the answer is to your question. Its a maxtor external hard drive that i can just plug and play via USB

 

 

 

START > RUN > type 'command' , then 'DOS' will open and type 'chkdsk'

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what is chkdsk and how do I run it?

 

trowa i'm not sure what the answer is to your question. Its a maxtor external hard drive that i can just plug and play via USB

 

 

you run check disk in dos. go into it and switch to whatever the USB drive is. For example if it is the f drive you would do this.

 

Start -> Run -> cmd then hit enter.

type in f: then hit enter

then type in chkdsk then hit enter

let the program run as long as it needs to..

 

It sounds like it is one of those hard drive encasements that you buy with the hard drive already in it. I would try checkdisk. if that doesn't fix it then try the program that I can send to you. It can check and repair bad partitions. And if the problem is with bad sectors on the physical disk then it can try to recover the data. Problem being if it is USB it will take HOURS... but if it is important data then its worth the time.

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Microsoft® Windows DOS

©Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

 

C:\DOCUME~1\GQ301>chkdsk

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is WinXP.

 

WARNING! F parameter not specified.

Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

 

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...

File verification completed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...

Index verification completed.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...

Security descriptor verification completed.

Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.

Windows found problems with the file system.

Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

 

20972825 KB total disk space.

10519856 KB in 49924 files.

20440 KB in 4519 indexes.

32 KB in bad sectors.

132649 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

10299848 KB available on disk.

 

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

5243206 total allocation units on disk.

2574962 allocation units available on disk.

 

C:\DOCUME~1\GQ301>f:

 

F:\>chkdsk

 

F:\>

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