External HD issue *noob question*
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- iDoom
Had Vista(bleh) computer crashed. I built a new one, installed win7 on my new computer.
Now when I plug in my external HDD it says it cant read it and must be formated.
I tried searching for device drivers for the HD cant find something to help. Also I tried changing the name of the drive destination and that seems not to work either. It would be a heavy blow to lose all the data on my HD. Its basically everything I need to get to the cloud.
The HD is a hitachi 1tb external. If anyone has any experience in something like this I would appreciate any help.
- Miguex0
I dont really know the answer, but I think it would be helpful if you were to list how the drive was formated in the first place.
I know I have similar issues with macs before, if I format something on a mac, you can't open it on pc for some reason, which sucks monkey ballsiacs, even if you do fat32 (whatever that means)
- Weird, I swap my external between a Mac and PC regularly with no issues.monospaced
- iDoom0
It was formated first for Vista. I used it on my mac which has OSX snow leopard 10.6.3 while I was building my PC. It never asked me to format to MAC and worked fine. Then when i built my PC and installed win7, plugged it in and now it says it needs to be formated.
- iDoom0
The disk Management recognizes it, it says
file system:Raw
status:healthy (active, primary partition)
- duhsign0
u lost me at vista bra
- deathboy0
http://www.reclaime.com/library/…
found this real quick. but have no idea really since ive never had a drive do that to me before.
and this from toms http://www.tomshardware.com/foru…
sounds like your drive may have just died though, not a windows issue just really fucked up timing. especially if all the updates were installed
- The toms link softwares site looks more legit to buy fromdeathboy
- jaylarson0
your master boot record sounds hosed. use disk to repair it.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/T…