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Can't open my external hard disk, it's saying to Format it.
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Original title: Cant open my external hard disk
I cant open my external hard drive. It says I have to format it. In computer it just show Local Disk K but there is no storage reading.
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Anonymous
2016-05-23T11:56:06+00:00 -
Anonymous
2016-05-19T09:12:22+00:00 i am having same issue and i dont want to loose my data but the data which is there in the disk is just videos nothing else except some excel files that too are not important.
i want may data coz i have to rearrange the same data which i dont want to , thats why i want my data.
My mail id is ******@gmal.com
PLEASE HELP.
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Anonymous
2016-03-01T21:10:54+00:00 what if it dosen t work on any compuer (win xp 7 8 8 8.1 10)
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Anonymous
2016-01-24T19:06:44+00:00 Tried connecting it to a macintosh (OS X based) system?
Think you could take the drive out of the external container it is in and put it in another, connect it to an adapter or install it inside a computer?
Ever used a program called "testdisk"? It could help you see what the current partition schema is on the system and try to recover things - especially if you know how it was partitioned/formatted before (one or multiple partitions, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, etc.)
How 'old' is the drive in question?
Using the same cables that came with it? Have you tried other cables?
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Anonymous
2016-01-24T17:16:37+00:00 Actually 2 laptops were used.. But still the dialogue box that says format still exists.. Can I still recover the files?