I recently plugged in my hdd into a media player, it worked for a couple of times and then there was an error.
I plugged it into my laptop and it said
'you need to format the disc before you can use it'
and
'the volume does not contain a recognised filesystem'
I really don't wanna format it if at all possible
In disk management its showing as a healthy 931gb drive, in RAW format.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks
Hello Zanty, welcome to Seven Forums!
Don't format it yet though RAW doesn't look good.
In Windows disk management does it have a drive letter?
ok thanks, I came very close!
Its showing up as (I) showing up as healthy in disk management
Really hoping for some advice with this please
Hi,
931GB suggests this is a 1TB drive with no data on it.......do you know how much data you had on it?
Please post a screen capture image of your Disk management window, so we can look at this.
1. Click Start
2. Right-click on My Computer
3. Click Manage
4. Click Disk Management
Maximize the screen, then take a screen capture image and post it here in your next reply.
Regards,
Golden
Hi Golden, thanks,
I had roughly 655gb data on it, mostly backups of my existing bluray collection so I could use with my boxee, which i'm guessing i'll have to start over with lol
Hi,
The problem is the RAW format - I have no idea how to get around that, apart from formatting, but that means you lose the data.
Let me see if someone else can help - hold on. I've requested more help, but I did find this:
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/fre...ard-drive.html
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/download.html
Its a utility from the makers of Partition Wizard (who are well known and recommended here) but I have never used this tool before. Have a look at that and see if its something you would like to try.
Regards,
Golden
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