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windows 7 OS says my 1 yr old internal 3.5" 1TB sata hd is going bad;?
the hds drive letters/partitions on the system no longer show up in 'my computer'; however...it works perfectly fine on my XP system when i connect it with an external usb adapter. I can see and access all partitions when connected to the XP system, but when re-connected with the usb adapter to the Win7 system, it now tells me I need to format the partitions in order to 'use' them. So the drive IS NOT working any longer on the Win7 system neither internal nor external...but it does work on my XP system....the question is "What would/could cause this, and is there a fix?"
the 4 partitions may or may not randomly show up in 'my computer' and the disk mgmt utility in win7 upon reboot. 'whenever' they do show up, thats when win7 will intermittently pop up warnings of a pending hd failure OR it may tell me that I need to format the 'new' partitions before i can use them. otherwise, they cannot be accessed, and no data or properties are available for them. Win7 is treating them as empty or raw partitions i think. However i know the existing data is there, i can see and access it when its connected to my XP system. I could probably move all the data off using the XP system, repartition and/or reformat, and then move the data back and reconnect it(internally) to the Win7 system, but I 'd rather not, if I dont have to...
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- JoelKatzLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
When the drive is not working, what do you see in the Disk Manager? (You can get to it by typing 'diskmgmt.msc' in the Run bar.)
