USB Hard Drive not Recognised
EvanWhisper05
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I have reformatted my PC and transferred all of my data onto a portable USB Hard Drive.
Part of the Hard Drive broke yesterday when I tried to transfer everything back, and it stopped spinning and was damaged.
Since then, I have replaced the circuit board on the hard drive and it has started spinning again. When I plug it into the computer, it says it is installed but a new driver doesn't come up on the computer screen.
Part of the Hard Drive broke yesterday when I tried to transfer everything back, and it stopped spinning and was damaged.
Since then, I have replaced the circuit board on the hard drive and it has started spinning again. When I plug it into the computer, it says it is installed but a new driver doesn't come up on the computer screen.
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It certainly started the disk spinning again.
But the best option right now is to run a file recovery tool on the PC hard drive as soon as possibly. You might still recover all/most/none of your data. The free 'Recuva' or not-free 'Recover My Files' are a good place to start.
And remember, two backups are better than one.
It says it has installed it but nothing pops up to say it is there.
It doesn't become visible.
I've tried an IDE to SATA converter but that hasn't worked either.
What shows up in Device Manager and Disk Managment (run diskmgmt.msc)?
If you go into properties of the drive under 'Device Manager' it says it is working fine and 'ready to use'.
This has happened on Windows 7 before and when plugged into an XP machine it finds it, but it will not find it this time.
I don't think the disk can be completely failed if it is spinning, and showing up in the Device Manager?
It's also not being read by the BIOS.
I get the feeling that the drive has no file system on it or at least none that Windows recognises. Or it is still faulty. In Disk Manager does it show the capacity of the drive at all?
It is possible that to make Windows recognise it you will have to create a partition on the drive and format it. That may well make it difficult to recover any data from it. Assuming there is any to recover.
None of it is completely irreplaceable by any means, it's mostly leisure stuff. It's more of an inconvenience than anything else.
The hard disk itself has no operating system on it, just the files which I transferred onto it temporarily.
We can't create on a partition on it or format it because Disk Management says it isn't initialized and when we try to initialize it, it says "not ready"