I had a drive that was hooked up to a mac and it showed the same way on a Win7 machine until I DISKPARTed it) There are a ton of tutorials on Technet and online to help you fix the issue with the drive (the drive is in raw vs having a file system and Windows at least won't touch it until you commit to making changes that will impact the drive i.e. However, if you want to start using the drive again, it is possible. Usually it's because the EFS or PEBCAK because I broke something. Speaking from experience, I've had this happen to some of my drives. If it is worth your time, you may need to pay for a recovery service or tools like PHOTOREC.
If you want to get to the data on the drive, I'm sorry to say that it's probably gone or not worth your time. I tried a recover but i don't really know what I'm doing with it. You guys reckon its dead? I've tried some third party software to format it to FAT32 but on some software it doesnt turn up. When trying to delete volume through disk management it says "The system cannot find the file specified" When trying to format through disk management it says "The format did not complete successfully" A cmd format /FS:FAT32 doesnt work (probably because it's 500GB?). However, I cannot format, mark partition as active, or delete volume. All i want is to format setting it to FAT32 and create one primary partition. I did try plugging it into a linux machine and there was no indication of it even being picked up.Ĭhecking under disk management, it turns out its file system is set to RAW and I need it to be FAT32. After repluggin it, it says i should format it but later comes up with an error "Windows was unable to complete format" and that i should check if its not perhaps "read only" etc. I cannot create or put anything on it as it says. I am able to explore the drive SOMETIMES but theres nothing on it.
It's also visible under "My Computer" however it does not display any of the info regarding free space and total size (just "Local Disk F:"). I plug it into my windows 7 laptop, and it appears in computer manager -> disk management. I'd just like to comfirm whether or not its days are over. I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external harddrive (500GB).
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