External Hardrive; can't see data on it

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tia - Dec 6, 2009 at 12:41 PM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Dec 6, 2009 at 01:00 PM
I have a Seagate Freeagent external USB HardDrive with around 65GB of music on it. Earlier today I could go into the drive from my computer and see all the music. Now when I access the drive I only see 1 folder and cannot play the music in it. The data is there because when I right click on the drive and go to the properties it still shows around 65GB of used space. Here is the troubleshooting steps I have tried so far:

Several Reboots
Connected HardDrive to a different computer, same situation (Both computers are Windows XP SP3)
Tried to run CheckDisk but gets to phase 4 and error message is generated stating that windows cannot perform checkdisk.

Please tell me somebody has answer for this. I would hate to think that I have lost all my music.

Thanks in advance for any help or info.

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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,827
Dec 6, 2009 at 01:00 PM
I would download Partition Wizard:

https://download.cnet.com/3001-2094_4-10962200.html?spi=44c52bbf87a60f186cd86aa27ae58ccf&part=dl-6285158

I has a number of tools to fix your hard drive.

Good Luck
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