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External Hard Drive Problem

  • 28-01-2009 11:19pm
    #1
    neilryan8881
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    I have a Western Digital My Book 500G External HD and after plugging it into the laptop the other day via USB it shows up as 'local disk G' and cant be accessed. Windows then asks me to format in order to use.

    I restarted and before the log in screen came up, the screen said 'checking drive G for inconsistencies' which took like a day and deleted a few bad files seemingly but left me in the same position.

    I assumed everything was gone from the HD but ive just plugged it into the Xbox and can play and view everything perfectly.

    Has anyone ANY idea what might be happening!?!

    Thanks a mil


Comments

  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    To start off with, what operating system have you got? Vista?
    Is the external or your internal drive formatted with different formats? 32 bit V's NTFS Vista type formats, etc
    Have you tried checking to see if even a different USB lead can make a difference?


  • #3
    neilryan8881
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭neilryan8881


    Im using Vista and the file system on the external hard drive is FAT32..think the 2 drives on the laptop are NTFS so maybe thats the issue. I plugged in the hd into another laptop but same problem. If i format it as Windows is requesting will i lose all the data?


  • #4
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭John mac


    yes you will loose it. if you format
    a friend of mine had a similar problem last weekend

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055471394

    he used recuva successfully.


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