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Redish All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 10 2011 : 11:00AM
I am having a problem this fine morning that I need help with,
By drive was working fine a couple of days ago, this morning when I plug it in i says it cannot detect the partition on the drive and asks me to format.
Any ideas on what happened and how to fix this problem?
Zoid
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Boobies and Anal
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Posted - Feb 10 2011 : 1:11PM
You can use a program like TestDisk to try and fix the partition table. In the worst case scenario you can also use it to recover data.
Before that, however... did you try to connect the drive via different USB ports? Different computer and OS?
What kind of drive is it (model)? What OS do you have?
Redish All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 10 2011 : 6:13PM
I have Vista and I tried different cords and different ports on teh same laptop.
It is a Seagate FreeAgentGo 500 GB.
Redish All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 10 2011 : 6:15PM
And for some reason, now it works .... nevermind then.
I will take a look at TestDisk anyway.
mrhandz
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Posted - Feb 19 2011 : 4:18AM
Redish, I suggest you make a backup now, just in case it fails again!
Aside from testdisk, you could use photorec, it is made by the same guy. (it works faster because it only recovers 'user'-filetypes)



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