Your computer hardware is corrupted, try some other computer to access your external hard drive, it will definably work.
thats exactly what i want to do i have a xp descktop and my win7 is a desktop as well but smaller and was curious what i would need to retrieve the data off my hard drive like a SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB 2.0 Adapter Converter Cable or something like that just wondering thx.
External hard disk is connected and light is also blinking,
In Device manager, port is also showing under USB,
But when in Disk Management tool opens, I get a error message, "you must initialise a disk before logical disk manager can access it"
Can it deleted all the datas if i do the same...
After reading some more threads and using probable cause, these are my most likely scenarios and my reasoning for them as well.
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