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Ok, here you go. Found this: How to Share an External Hard Drive Between a Mac and a PC - The macosxhints Forums
Ok, here you go. Found this: How to Share an External Hard Drive Between a Mac and a PC - The macosxhints Forums
Okay, I took the hard drive out of the casing/box.
I plugged it directly to my desktop's eSATA.
it shows up in Device Manager fine.
In Computer Management's Disk Management, it tells me I have to initialize the disk before I can access it.
BUT WHY WHEN IT WAS WORKING FINE BEFORE!?!?
*sigh*
Was the file system on the external drive FAT32 or NTFS? How many partitions were there?
You can recover the partitions using the free Easeus Partition Recovery Software. This site also has tutorials on recovering the deleted partitions.
After you recover the partition, it is better to copy recoverable files off the hard disk to another hard disk (internal or external).
Once the files are transferred to another hard disk, remove all partitions from this hard disk, and freshly create new partitions and format to NTFS file system before you use it again.
I honestly don't remember if it was FAT32 or NTFS. My drive only had one partition. Thanks for the link. I hope it works because all the other partition recovery software I've used can't even detect the drive. When I get back home for the holidays I will hopefully come back with good results. Thanks.
Well, before you try any Partition Recovery software, check to see whether you can access the drive and copy the files with another OS - and what else other than Linux.
My thread Lucid Puppy way to recover files from a non-bootable computer should help you doing that. ( Though it was written to recover files from an internal drive, you can use it to recover files from an external drive too, if the Linux sees it)
Try.
I've transformed my external drive into an internal drive. I took it out of the box and plugged it directly to the eSATA of my computer. I did this with the assumption that Western Digital's USB interface was the one that crapped out.
Only thing that my computer does is detects my HDD in Device Manager. In Disk Management it tells me the HDD needs to be initiated. Windows Explorer it doesn't show up of course.
I know that with the USB it didn't show up in MAC anymore either. So I guess I'll download LINUX and see what that does. Thanks for your help. I will check out your thread.
Yep, try it.
In my write up. it was recovering files from an inaccessible C drive to an external drive.
In your case you will be trying to read from an inaccessible external drive to your C drive (if enough space is there in it) or to another external drive.
All this if Lucid puppy can mount and read the problem drive. I am keeping my fingers crossed.:)
If not successful, you may have to revert to conventional recovery options.