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Unrecognised External USB HDD
Hi, I've performed lengthy research into the problem I am facing and have tried numerous things to repair my HDD (couldnt even tell you everything cause its been going on for so long) and I am now at my wits end with this.
I have an external 1TB USB HDD. Its an internal Samsung HDD in a USB enclosure.
It had 2 partitions, one in NTFS and the other was FAT32. I was using my PC one day with my HDD connected (just as it usually is, never really moves) and the next, both partitions were coming up on my computer screen as Local discs, that both required formatting. I went on to research this and tried registry fixing, and even changed the enclosure just incase it had a faulty power inlet or something. I eventually gave up on this and proceeded to try and recover as much data as i can. I ised a program called GetBackData for NTFS firstly without realising you needed a license to actually recover data. When i ran the free version, it detected ALL of my files and folders just as they were before. I wasnt in a position to buy the license just yet so tried to find some other freeware that might do the same job. Failing this, i eventually broke and bought the license to recover my data. This was 2 days later. I began to panic when My computer started to only recognised the Local discs occasionally, they werent being detected at all. I ran getbackdata, and surprise surprise, i couldnt recover anything. The program reported multiple I/O errors and all it could recover were a few mp3 files, a recycle bin? and some unknown folders.
All i want to do at this point is just reformat it and start again, but i cant even do that. Easeuse partition manager detects the hard drive, whilst my computer doesnt, but fails to recognise partitioning. upon repartitioning the drive it seems to work fine, up until the end, and then it reports that errors occured and nothing actually happens.
I know this is a lengthy post, but its driving me mad. I would really appreciate some guidance or assistance on this. Thanks
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I recommend going to the Samsung site and seeing if the drive is under warranty. If you are lucky, you can get a replacement drive for the cost of shipping.
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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
I recommend going to the Samsung site and seeing if the drive is under warranty. If you are lucky, you can get a replacement drive for the cost of shipping.
Unfortunately, I can't. I just tried and it says the product has been bought in from outside the service area. This would have been great had it have worked. Any other advice? Thanks for the reply
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