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My response is a little old, but you never know who it could help. I had not plugged in my hard drive for a minute and actually thought I had misplaced the AC adapter during this last international move. Somehow, when I tried to access the information on my WD external hard drive, I got a message asking me to format the drive if I wanted to use it. The drive registered, but showed 0kb, like it had spontaneously self-deleted all the files.
However, after reading everything here, and nothing worked, I decided to try a partition restoration software. It is called Active Partition Recovery out of Canada. I bought the $40 version after spending hours trying other things to scan it, etc. I could see the files. I simply right clicked on the drive to restore the boot sector and everything reappeared.
Just thought I would pass it along.
However, after reading everything here, and nothing worked, I decided to try a partition restoration software. It is called Active Partition Recovery out of Canada. I bought the $40 version after spending hours trying other things to scan it, etc. I could see the files. I simply right clicked on the drive to restore the boot sector and everything reappeared.
Just thought I would pass it along.
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Feb 13, 2009 at 04:14 AM
Feb 13, 2009 at 04:14 AM
hi,
you may try it in another computer And see if it detects the hard drive.
if it detects, you will have to backup the files on some DVDs.
then you may format the drive.
you may try it in another computer And see if it detects the hard drive.
if it detects, you will have to backup the files on some DVDs.
then you may format the drive.
As per suggested I used Active Partition Recovery and after clicking on "fix boot sector", within a matter of seconds my ext hdd was working and accessible, and no more asking me to format the drive.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Oct 22, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I purchased the same software from
LSOFT TECHNOLOGIES INC
2550 Argentia Road, Suite 218
Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 5R1
CANADA
Scanned my 320 WD ex HDD, because it wanted to format and not read.
Untility found: all files and restored to original state.
Thanks for tip
Nov 19, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Feb 14, 2010 at 02:42 AM
Apr 5, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Had the same problem with an external HDD (Seagate) and got the dreaded "format disk drive" pop-up...
So I've downloaded the software you suggested Active Partition Recovery and after clicking on "fix boot sector" it recovered my external HDD!!! (had to do it a couple of times... somehow didn't get it first time - not sure why)
Backing up all my files to DVD now!
I'm using Windows Vista btw...
Many thanks!
Jun 28, 2010 at 11:35 PM