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February 4, 2009 at 09:24 PM
welchd

What happened to my external hard drive

by welchd . Updated 17 years, 5 months ago

Howdy,

A couple of days ago, I was using my external hard drive connected to my laptop using Vista. I went to explore the files on the hard drive and windows explorer became non-responsive. I gave it several minutes but it never became responsive again. I ended up turning off power to the computer and restarting windows.

I tried accessing the external hard drive again, but it was showing up as unformatted. I tried the external on another system (non-vista) and the same issue, the computer recognized it as an unformatted disk.

What can I do to get my data back? I had some important work documents and personal pictures stored on the hard drive.

Thank you in advance for any help ~ D

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