My hard drive doesn't read. Only tells me to format before use
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xpcman
Aug 25, 2015 at 02:05 PM
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Aug 25, 2015 at 02:05 PM
The drive is broken and needs to be replaced. The data is unrecoverable outside of a Data Recovery Lab.
Sorry for the bad news
Sorry for the bad news
jollym124
Aug 28, 2015 at 01:07 AM
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Aug 28, 2015 at 01:07 AM
Hello,
no software solution on your own will work, you only option is to a data recovery company retrieve the data off the hard drive, if it isn't too badly damaged.
sorry to hear this, if the data is important then seek professional advise.
no software solution on your own will work, you only option is to a data recovery company retrieve the data off the hard drive, if it isn't too badly damaged.
sorry to hear this, if the data is important then seek professional advise.
EmilRich
Sep 16, 2015 at 07:09 AM
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Sep 16, 2015 at 07:09 AM
Hey guys thanks for the respond. They were a little disheartening but thanks anyway. I found a solution to the problem a colleague helped me out. He used the command prompt to solve the problem. He entered this command "chkdsk / f *the disk name goes here(it could be h, or g, or whatever)*"
What this does is, it checks the disk (chkdsk) and fixes (f) the broken areas.
To be clear, the command is chkdsk/ f d
This could help someone else, like it helped me. Pheeewww boy i'm i glad that i don't have to loose everything in my Hard drive
What this does is, it checks the disk (chkdsk) and fixes (f) the broken areas.
To be clear, the command is chkdsk/ f d
This could help someone else, like it helped me. Pheeewww boy i'm i glad that i don't have to loose everything in my Hard drive