kingnight83
11-24-2009, 01:38 AM
:confused:About 2 months ago i purchased this HD, it had been working fine. until i was transfering some files from a computer hooked on my network wirelessly to my Ext HD hooked to my laptop..
since then, i haven't been able to access my files (WHICH ARE VERY VERY IMPORTANT TO ME) i have no back up of these files. i want you to understand that this is the first tme i used an Ext HD, therefore i didn't know wheather it was a must or not to partition it.. i thought i could get the most of it by just leaving it as it was... but now.. since i can't get to my files, i am going crazy because i can't afford losing that info...
Everytime i connect the drive to my Laptop, i keep getting this weird sound on the HD (although i went and checked in different forums and sites and it seems as the HD it's not physically damaged). while this sound is still going my windows vista after a little while pops up a message stating thta it can't find the drivers for this drive.... then i let win vista go ahead and check for the drives which never finds.. after a bit the seagate manager goes green instead of gray but it tells me that this drive isn't recognized and that i need to format.. i've selected the format thing to partition the drive but it says the process failed..
ohh another thing that might be useful..... when i was transfering the files from the other computer to the HD drive hooked on my laptop, the other computer was shut down in the middle of the transfer ... and since then i haven't been able to access again the files on this drive!!
I also went to Disk manager and got the following:
Disk 1
Unknown
3,86 Gb
Not initialized
right in front i see a long black bar and it says 3,86 Gb Unallocated
i've already tried using programs such as "HDD regenerator", "Seatools for windows", "Active@ Partition recovery" and i have not yet been able to fix the problem.
i trully be very satisfied if anyone could please help me out here!
THANKING YOU ALL IN ADVANCE.:)
since then, i haven't been able to access my files (WHICH ARE VERY VERY IMPORTANT TO ME) i have no back up of these files. i want you to understand that this is the first tme i used an Ext HD, therefore i didn't know wheather it was a must or not to partition it.. i thought i could get the most of it by just leaving it as it was... but now.. since i can't get to my files, i am going crazy because i can't afford losing that info...
Everytime i connect the drive to my Laptop, i keep getting this weird sound on the HD (although i went and checked in different forums and sites and it seems as the HD it's not physically damaged). while this sound is still going my windows vista after a little while pops up a message stating thta it can't find the drivers for this drive.... then i let win vista go ahead and check for the drives which never finds.. after a bit the seagate manager goes green instead of gray but it tells me that this drive isn't recognized and that i need to format.. i've selected the format thing to partition the drive but it says the process failed..
ohh another thing that might be useful..... when i was transfering the files from the other computer to the HD drive hooked on my laptop, the other computer was shut down in the middle of the transfer ... and since then i haven't been able to access again the files on this drive!!
I also went to Disk manager and got the following:
Disk 1
Unknown
3,86 Gb
Not initialized
right in front i see a long black bar and it says 3,86 Gb Unallocated
i've already tried using programs such as "HDD regenerator", "Seatools for windows", "Active@ Partition recovery" and i have not yet been able to fix the problem.
i trully be very satisfied if anyone could please help me out here!
THANKING YOU ALL IN ADVANCE.:)