12-02-2015, 01:01 PM
If my hard drive suddenly becomes raw and windows says it needs to be formatted what can i do.The Hdd is not damaged, there are no ticking noises and it is not accessible.? Its a Seagate 1TB External Hdd.
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HDD Becomes Raw and Windows says it needs to be Formatted.?
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12-02-2015, 01:21 PM
12-02-2015, 01:36 PM
(12-02-2015, 01:21 PM)Compton Wrote: how to check your hard drive health status with crystal disk info Thanks for the reply but crystal disk info is to show if your hdd is healthy or bad and seatools is for analyzing it thats not gonna fix the raw hdd. lol
well you first need to establish if the HDD is in good health before doing anything else
12-02-2015, 01:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2015, 01:52 PM by WeeDKiLL420.)
(12-02-2015, 01:42 PM)Compton Wrote: well you first need to establish if the HDD is in good health before doing anything else Yeah its good in health ive used crystal disk info to check before i started to think of a plan to recover the data.? i know if its a bad hdd and i keep using the drive it will become dead. im a couple of steps ahead i just need to know how to get it back to normal.? My possible ideas of fixing the raw hdd fixing the disk structure Assigning a new drive letter my last resort using test disk then chkdsk any other options.?
12-02-2015, 02:24 PM
ok I would chkdsk if that don,t work
boot Linux to see if you can get access to the data |
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