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External hdd not working after mac using

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Ghedge - Feb 15, 2012 at 02:05 PM
 Reed1o - Aug 4, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Hello,
My external 500gb hdd was conected to mac. Opening was stoped in middle and Hdd was disconected. Now I cant open my hdd on windows. Its even not showing in My computer.
What to do now?
Maybe try to conect one more time with MAC ?
Or maybe there is some software to let it work again in windows?

i hope somebody will help me.........

Thanks

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Blocked Profile
Feb 15, 2012 at 05:27 PM
With it plugged into the windows PC go to start > right click my computer > click manage

choose disk management on the left side.

in there you should see the 500GB drive.

right click it and format it.
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Reed1o
Jul 26, 2012 at 03:40 PM
I have the same problem. If I format it the way you suggested, do I lose the data present in my external hdd?
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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Jul 26, 2012 at 05:22 PM
Yes the data will be lost.
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Reed1o
Jul 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Ok. Is there anyway I can protect my data and also use it with windows?
I can't afford to lose the data.
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Blocked Profile
Jul 30, 2012 at 04:44 AM
You could try putting it back into the Mac to see if you could open it?

alternatively in windows you could try running the following command through comand prompt:

convert <driveletter>: /FS:NTFS
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Reed1o
Aug 4, 2012 at 12:41 PM
I connected it into the Mac and saved my files and than formatted it. Its working properly now.

I had also tried the command before formatting but it said that the format was already ntfs.

Thank you for the help.
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