My external drive's not working properly
Hi.
recently while copying files from my internal hard disk to my external hard disk, my system froze. i had to do a cold reboot. but after that when i tried accessing my external HDD it shows it as local disk j: having 0 capacity and 0mb used. there are no files displayed even though i have over 230gb of data on it.
i have tried all troubleshooting methods available on windows help. even unplugged it and connected after sometime to see if it would work. no such luck. i even tried it on my laptop computer and it doesn't work there either. system restore has been disabled for that drive somehow, so system restore doesn't work either.
i have important files on it and can't afford to format it.
the drive is a transcend 320gb external hdd. i am running windows xp pro sp3, with 160gb internal hdd and 3gb ddr2 ram.
please help me recover the data somehow if possible.
thank you.
March 19th, 2010 2:49pm
Hi.
recently while copying files from my internal hard disk to my external hard disk, my system froze. i had to do a cold reboot. but after that when i tried accessing my external HDD it shows it as local disk j: having 0 capacity and 0mb used. there are no files displayed even though i have over 230gb of data on it.
i have tried all troubleshooting methods available on windows help. even unplugged it and connected after sometime to see if it would work. no such luck. i even tried it on my laptop computer and it doesn't work there either. system restore has been disabled for that drive somehow, so system restore doesn't work either.
i have important files on it and can't afford to format it.
the drive is a transcend 320gb external hdd. i am running windows xp pro sp3, with 160gb internal hdd and 3gb ddr2 ram.
please help me recover the data somehow if possible.
thank you.
====================================Sounds like the external drive went bad. Might be worth a try to contact Transend Tech Support:
Transend Tech Supporthttp://www.transcendusa.com/Contact/CuTechsupport.aspJohn Inzer - MS-MVP - Digital Media Experience - Notice_This is not tech support_I am a volunteer - Solutions that work for
me may not work for you - ***Proceed at your own risk***
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March 19th, 2010 7:56pm