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External HDD - Unkown, Not Initiated and not Allocated
Good Evening,
I have been trying for a few days to get my External Hard Drive working. The HD is out of another laptop. I only mention this because when i removed the HD about a year ago it was fully functionable.
In windows Disk Management, I am able to see the drive in question, however it says that it is not initiated, and unknown. All of the other threads that I have seen about this the HDD reads "Not Allocated" to the right of the drive. However this is not the case with mine.
I have also tried a recovery program, 2 actually, Photorec and MiniTool Partition - Free. Neither of these two programs were able to see the External Drive. Furthermore I have also tried the external drive on another PC which yielded the same results, as well as plugging the drive directly into my laptop, as the primary drive, however the drive failed to load, claiming that there was not an OS found.
I havent tried formatting the drive yet, as I need 1 particular file off of the drive that holds my license keys to all my software.
Any and all help/suggestions would be appreciated :)