Can't open my external hard disk, it's saying to Format it.

Anonymous
2013-01-02T06:16:46+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-15T21:35:40+00:00

    I had the same problem. so pls share a solution on mail ID *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-15T21:34:48+00:00

    I had same problem I fixed it without losing data email me *** Email address is removed for privacy *** I will give u solution but I need more info. And the data is safe after being fixed guaranteed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-15T21:34:20+00:00

    please send me your e-amil adress , since i had same problem with  WD-diks

    had to preform chdks /f  X:  everytime in Dosbox

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-15T21:31:04+00:00

    I am not familiar with hardware but managed to open my Seagate 3T external hard drive and bought a SATA connector as advised.  I thought if I just plugged it in, I'd be able to get the information, but it says I must format and will lose all my data.  That's exactly the reason I got the SATA connector in the first place, so that I could get the data from the HD.   

    I am having the same issue as what is mentioned above with exactly the same error messages and do not want to lose all the data on my HD by formatting it.  Can you please help?

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