External hard drive problems....?
I have a windows xp machine and I also have a external hard drive connected at all times to this machine. one day the computer crashed and then I was not able to access the hard drive contents after the crash. an error message would occur that said volume is corrupted. I check the properties of the hard drive and its saying that there is no data on the hard drive. (this computer doesnt have a virus.)
i installed partition table doctor and tried to recover it and when you hit browse contents from partition doctor software all the files are present. I tried running check disk and nothing fixes it. so I decided to plug the external hard drive to my windows 7 pc to see if I can fix it there. as soon as i plug it in a message pops ups saying please run check disk on this device. before I ran it I open the my computer and i was able to access the hard drive. so I ran check disk and 4 hours later it was done it worked fine on my windows 7 pc but still cannot get it to work on my windows xp machine. I ran check disk on my windows xp hard drives and still doesnt fix the problem. xp says access denied, file system is corrupted. but it works fine on windows 7 pc.... anyone have any ideas?