Resolved Won't recognize external hard drive.

Fauxqui · 2010/05/11

I have an Iomega external hard drive (350 mb) that I use with my laptop (XP Pro). All was well until about a week ago when the laptop stopped recognizing the drive. It saw it (F but couldn't open it.
I rebooted and the laptop did a scan of the drive and apparently fixed some bad sectors. All was well until yesterday when it started to do the same thing. When I reboot now however it doesn't do a scan.
How do i get itto scan and repair?

PeteC · 2010/05/11

Start > Run > type in cmd > Enter

At the flashing cursor type cd\ > Enter - this takes you to the root of C:\

At the flashing cursor type F: > Enter - this takes you to your F:\ drive - if it is recognised

At the flashing cursor type chkdsk /r > Enter Enter

A scan should start.

It would seem to me that the drive is dying and if you manage to get into it again copy off all your data pronto!

anands · 2010/05/12

I agree with Pete as it seems to be dying, better to back up the contents in it.
I think you are connecting via USB/Firewire! you may ask a H/W people to remove the external casing and try to connect the HDD as secondary HDD in your PC.

Fauxqui · 2010/05/13

Thanks guys, I managed yto get the iomega drive to respond and copy all the info to a new back up drive. Now to delete 10,000 duplicate iTunes!

PeteC · 2010/05/13

Good news

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