My guess would be that your MFT is corrupted. Try to pull your data off with Recuva and then reformat it. You can also try one of the Linux distros. They are not as touchy as windows.
It seems you were right. Got Recuva... alas, I was unable to restore any of my precious data.
If I were to format my drive, and continue using it for backup, what are the odds it will happen again?
I have a failing pc. Tried to back up to new western digital 3tb drive but it won't let me. I have an Xp os that I upgraded to win 7 ultimate. I reformatted per some other forums but still no. It says the back up could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Any help would be appreciated.
I installed The Sims 3 onto an external hard drive. Albeit slow, it worked fine for weeks. Unplugged it, plugged it back in, all was well. One day I plugged it in and it wouldn't start up. Saying the game could not be located. I chucked to make sure the drive letter had not changed, and it hadn't....
I have a WD 250Gb external hard drive that I tried to format and use as a backup. I unchecked the tick box that said 'quick format' and left it to format. It took over and hour before i got the message along the lines of 'formatting failed'. Now when I plug it into my PC I can't access it and it...
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I run a system backup weekly using Widnows backup process. This has worked for a long time, but now it has failed. The external drive than I am using is no longer known to the system.
Using a LaCie 3TB conected via esata.
If I go into Computer Management and then disk...
Hi, I have two internal 500Gb SATA drives and one external 500Gb ESATA drive.
I wanted to have 2 backups images of my drive as a safety measure. One on the internal and one on the external ESATA drive.
The backup image on the internal drive took about 25 minutues and seems OK. The image size is...
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