I've tried all of those things and nothing has changed
I will need to format.
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| Author: | Wraith [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | 2nd Hard drive issue |
My second External isn't showing up under My Computer. The hard drive is working and my computer is recognizing it as DMI USB 2.0 Storage under devices and printers. I checked disk management and found that it is not showing up in the first upper column but is showing up on the lower column, but with a red arrow on its tile. The disk does not have a drive letter at all and I'm not able to select it and assign it one. I've tried initializing it but it's giving me an unable to initialize massage. Extra info: obviously I have the C: and recovery drive D: my first hard drive is listed as E: Any help would be great, thank you very kindly. |
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| Author: | bob [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
It sounds like the device has lost it's formatting. This can occur when the MBR has become corrupted. I would search online for a partition recovery software. There are several out there. |
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| Author: | ColeLT1 [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
You can also try setting a drive letter and see if it will let you. |
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| Author: | Wraith [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
So for that latter piece of advice, how would I go about that? Sorry Bob, I wanna try the easy stuff first. |
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| Author: | ColeLT1 [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
In disk management, right click the area to the right of the disk (at the bottom half), change drive letter. |
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| Author: | Wraith [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
Nothing happens when I click over there. It shows up as: Disk 1 Unknown Not Initialized This thing is about to become a target for S&W 442, it's angering me so bad. I really don't want to lose my John Wayne and Clint Eastwood collection :'( |
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| Author: | bob [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
Then, yes. It's lost it's formatting. It is likely what we consider to be a "RAW" disk. I would google Raw to NTFS conversion. If any of the programs ask you to format, say no. |
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| Author: | ColeLT1 [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
^This, if the drive has data on it that you want. If you don't care, you can initialize, partition, then format the disk and it will wipe it. I think to initialize you right click the drive (in disk management). |
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| Author: | Wraith [ Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
I've tried all of those things and nothing has changed I will need to format.
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| Author: | bob [ Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
Wraith wrote: I've tried all of those things and nothing has changed I will need to format.If there is any info on that drive still around, that will delete it. Just making sure you know that. |
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| Author: | Wraith [ Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2nd Hard drive issue |
Yeah, that sucks... I'll have to get all my movies again. The drive doesn't even show as to it having stored anything and I can't get it to show up to even format it so I'm going to have to use something to write zeros. |
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