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Data not being seen on external hard drive

  • 07-01-2011 9:02am
    #1
    En-Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    I have a Freeagent 1.5TB external HD. When I look at it in My Computer it says 1.36TB used with 1.1GB free, however, if I double-click or right click on it the folder is empty. I ran Getdataback on it which showed up a lot of bad sectors, and when completed there was nothing in the Recovery Tree. Chkdsk also fails.

    I presume that's it for the drive?


Comments

  • #2
    Odaise Gaelach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


    I think so. :(


  • #3
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Remove the 1.5TB HDD from the external case and mount the 1.5TB HDD in a PC.

    Could be a faulty power supply or the case.


  • #4
    En-Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭En-Motion


    I think what happened to the drive is that a format was started and aborted on it. Getdataback doesn't even recognise the NTFS sector now. Sees the drive but can't perform a scan as sector 0 is 'bad'. I'm guessing that the drive itself is frigged.

    I'll take it out and try mounting it internally.


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