20 Most Recent Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500 GB Hard Drive - Page 6 Questions & Answers

NTLDR is the NT loader that loads the kernel.You may have a corrupt boot record. Re install windows is the simplest solution. You may be able to do a windows repair if you have the original OS install disk.

try hitachi website support or ask google

You just connect it up, and boot from your system disk, and your computer will install the necessary software for you. You must be connected to the internet and this must not be your system disk (unless you are booting from CD or an eternal device) 30.April.2014

Personally, I think you really lucked out that it worked after being dropped. Then to be able to use it for two (2) more years is very exceptional for Hitachi drives. If you can hold the drive in your hand while "trying" to boot up....you "might" be able to gently rock the drive (face/label up) side-to-side and get the PC to recognise & maybe even read it. Have a flash/thumb drive ready "if" you succeed in seeing and reading any data on this - chances are you'll only get this 1 last chance to get your info. Good Luck.

Find and open the application Disk Utility under Applications Click on the external drive and click Erase. If you would like the drive to be compatible with Mac only, choose any of the Mac OS options. If you would like the drive to be compatible with Mac and Windows, choose FAT32.

In the BIOS select the drive you want to boot from.

Open Start menu Click the right mouse button on Computer On the pop out menu click on Manage In the left hand menu click on Disk Manage Your drive should show here if it is plugged in. Delete all partitions Now create a partition, format it how you want.

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1. Check your power lead make sure both ends are plugged in and switch on. 2. Replace Power lead 3. Rehouse the drive (This is not hard and there are a lot of youtube clips that can help you)