A week ago I turned my computer on and it ran a disk check on my external drive, which it does from time to time so I didn't think much of it. After the disk check Windows XP wouldn't load for the longest time. When it finally did my hard drive was no longer recognized.
I can get it to show up in the device manager and it says that the device is working properly. I've tried changing the letter the drive is assigned, which it won't do. I've tried to use system recovery and roll back to a few days before the initial problem, and get an error telling me that the K:/ drive will not be affected by the recovery. When the drive does show up it will not let me access it, rather it tells me that there is an I/O error. I've tried various ports, I've powered up and down, tried new cables, and I don't have anything in my network connections regarding a 1394.
Can anyone help me please? Every project I've done for school, every picture I've taken over the last few years, everything is on this drive.
It may be one of two things:
1 broken hard drive - which is tough for you
2 damaged FAT table
to check what's that please download WD Diagnostics (for Windows will be the easiest to use) from WD web site and run it.
It will be able to scan the harddrive easily if it's recognized by the system.
Run extended test and you will now is that problem related to hardware.
If the results are OK then it's just data corruption.
In this situation you should be able to recover the data by some of the recovery software like "get data back", "easy recovery" etc. However for most of those you will have to pay so may need to buy it or go to some tech that has it.
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