Corrupted External Hard Drive? NOOOOOOOO!!?

I have seen this often with drives that are actually perfectly fine. If it is a USB powered drive try different USB ports the one you are using may not provide enough power to spin up the drive properly.

If the drive came with an external power supply then the drive may be bad still it would pay to try it on other USB ports or even another PC before formatting.

Either the drive is dead, the drive is dying and not functioning properly which is why it's not seeing it correctly, OR the drive is a type of drive your system won't recognize. If it's a USB drive try another USB port, some USB ports work better than others. If its in an external hard drive case, open the case and make sure the everything is securely connected. Also if its in a external case there may be a power switch on it, see if there is one, and make sure it's on if there is one. If this doesn't solve your problem - look at the drive through computer management (start button, programs, administrative tools, computer management), go to disk management and see if you can see the driver there, see if it says the drive is healthy... see if you can access the drive their. OR if you have something like partition magic (which I prefer) see if you can access the drive there... If you still can't the only thing I can think of, if it's an internal hard drive in an external hard drive case is you could take it out of the case and put it internally into your machine... If not, sadly I think you're out of luck... Sorry...

No once a drive goes bad its unrecoverable to get the files back and formatting the hard drive isnt going to do anything but just try to delete it the hard drive must of fallen or got hit by accident or maybe it was exposed to the heat or moved to much or maybe it was its time you can call the manufacturer to see what programs they have in there website to help you try to recover your files good luck!

the system is not seeing the drive as a logical partition.

get a software program to recover the drive. or if you can put it in the same system you set the drive up in.

Sounds like it is empty. You need to format the drive before you can use it.

1st go back to the person who backed it up and get them to check its ok on their system then try with additional power source on your laptop

If the data is there then worst case ask plead with then to put it on DVD/CD

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