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External Harddisk Unreadable Corrupted and Not recognized

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by varun

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Hi,

I have bought a mercury 320gb external hdd which requires a power source to be switched on. It is probable due to some excessive traveling that my hdd must have got corrupted.

First, When i switch it on, there is always this click click click click sound and then some whirling and nothing that sounds good and only spells trouble.

Secondly, My computer knows that there is something connected. It comes in Disk Drives in
Device Manager as "WDC.....". However, it doesnt come up in "My Computer" and when i go to Storage to Disk Management, it does not show up there as well.

This means i cannot read it, give it a disk name, partition it nor format it.

This is all using the normal tips i have found by using Windows Xp..

I had tried Disk Password protector where to my delight i found that it was there but then it had only 18 gb unallocated and was unreadable and i could not format it from there.

Is there anything i can do or any program i can download that will bring back my harddisk from the dead...

I m not interested in recovering my files and i m willing to loose it provided my hdd is working.

Any help appreciated..,

Thanks

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by absolutely

The clicking noise has to do with parts making contact that should not, and nothing at all to do with corruption, which is sometimes recoverable. You can still use the case, but the hdd inside it is a loss.

by ic-it

you may want to download and try MHDD. You will need to run it from a bootable CD or Floppy (found in the download).
It isn't very intuitive to run so here is a brief guide. Also check the FAQs. I believe you will need to remove the drive and place it on it's own chain as a master device, but try it externally first.

Usually you will want to set it to loop and remap. Basically you choose the drive, press F4, use the arrow keys to scroll and the space bar to change options, F4 starts the scan after selecting the options. Set Remap to ON. Set Loop/repair to ON. Let it run through at least three times.
The program can be found from the link below or with the UBCD ISO.

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

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