Solved Corrupted External Hdd

[darkf0xx]

I noticed that my external hdd had an extra 100mb partition on it, I used partition wizard to merge the two partitions so it will be like its normal 1 partition, upon finishing the merge my 2tb external drive is now unreadable but the info is still on there, is there some way for me to make it so I can make it readable again? right now when I double click the drive it takes about 5 minutes to load then says the drive is unreadable. When I ran it through a partition recovery I can see the files are all still there and even open the files but I need to make it accessible again without the program. The files equal more than what space I have available on my hard drive or I would just transfer them like that. I have also tried un-assigning a drive letter then reassigning it but that didn't work either.

 

[darkf0xx]

Here is the message I receive when I double click the drive to open it

 

[Layback Bear]

Complete this tutorial by Golden and post so our experts can take a look.
Make sure your external drive is plugged in.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[whs]

What was the reason that messed with the 100MB partition and what exactly did you do. 100MB is a really very tiny space on a 2TB HDD.

 

[darkf0xx]

What was the reason that messed with the 100MB partition and what exactly did you do. 100MB is a really very tiny space on a 2TB HDD.

mostly because I didnt like the way it looked, I wont do that again.

 

[Layback Bear]

If you complete the tutorial in my Post #3 the good folks here could look and give advice.

 

[darkf0xx]

 

[Layback Bear]

Please follow the tutorial exactly so we can see the whole Disc Management.

You should not be tinkering with Disc Management if you can't follow instructions.
Bad things can happen if instruction are not followed exactly.

If you have a problem understanding the tutorial ask questions. Someone will give more guidance.


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

Example from my computer.

 

[darkf0xx]

despite the fact that it shows no useful info that I didn't show before Ill do it.

 

[Layback Bear]

Thank you and yes it does show more.

You have a nice day.

 

[darkf0xx]

Thank you and yes it does show more.

You have a nice day.

you too, the only reason I even merged the two partitions was because its been bothering me since partition wizard put it there the first time (the 100mb partition) and since its just a storage device I didn't think it would mess with its ability to load. I think after this I will uninstall partition wizard and no longer mess with partitions, it doesn't seem to be my forte. I hope someone can come up with a solution to this, I have a lot of saved files on my hdd, video projects, photos and project for photoshop (almost the full 2tb worth)

 

[whs]

You can try this:

» UPDATED How To Fix: External Disk Drive Suddenly Became RAW

 

[darkf0xx]

You can try this:

» UPDATED How To Fix: External Disk Drive Suddenly Became RAW

everything seems to work up until I go to the part where it says "Press
Q
to go back a screen and then press enter to get to this screen.
Select WRITE and press enter in order to write our new partition table to the drive.
DO NOT WRITE A NEW PARTITION TABLE IF YOU DID NOT SEE YOUR FILES/FOLDERS That means the proper partition table was not found and you will have to try a different technique to recover your data."

it doesnt seem to give me a "write" option

 

[darkf0xx]

I have found a fix for this so I will post it on here, I got help in other locations and someone suggested a program called "Active: Partition Recovery" and it worked in 10 seconds. Here is the video that goes with the problem I had for further info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTUDRKPdTPs&ab_channel=LSoftTechnologies
Thank you all for your help, this community is great.

 

[whs]

That looks like a good program and it is freeware. Thanks for sharing.

 

[darkf0xx]

No problem, and thank for fixing that video link, I couldn't get it to work it would just show asterisks in place of the address when I tried inputting the YouTube URL.

 

[whs]

If you want to post the full video, you must get the URL from Youtube and only use the part behind th v= like this ZTUDRKPdTPs