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JAT - Jul 8, 2011 at 12:12 PM
 Blocked Profile - Jul 9, 2011 at 07:30 PM
Hello,
My pc is not recognizing my external hard drive as such. It is calling it the same drive letter, but before it had the Name of it, the manufacturer and it's capacity and I could access it. Now it is calling it 'Storage Device' and the incorrect manufacturer and i can not access any of my files and it's asking me to reformat. I do not wanna do that, bc I will lose a lot if data on it. But how do I get it to work properly again. I have uninstalled and installed again. there are no drivers CD or downloads for it. I have the Apollo expert d200 external HDD but it is recognized as HITACHI HDS7 and though it says it is working properly. it is not... PLEASE HELP!



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Blocked Profile
Jul 8, 2011 at 06:08 PM
Best thing to do would be to run a check disk on it.

find out the drive letter

go to start > run > type cmd > ok

then type:

chkdsk /f /r driveletter:

enter

let it run and see what happens.
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JAT
Jul 8, 2011 at 11:08 PM
I did as you suggested and this is the response I got post scan.
"An error occured while reading the file allocation table <FAT1>.
An error occured while reading the file allocation table <FAT 2>.
There are no readable file allocation tables <FAT>."
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Blocked Profile
Jul 9, 2011 at 07:30 PM
what happens if you try converting the file structure of the drive to NTFS?

again, go to start > run > cmd > ok

type convert <driveletter:> /FS:NTFS

hit enter

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