External Hard Drive Help

[kainbloodheart]

I plugged in my external hard drive today and it says that it needs to be formated and that there is nothing on it, thats 300GB of anime, 3 Seasons of House, lots of pics and uni work backups gone, is there anyway of retrieving this or anything ?

[r-18]

i have one that the comp sees..then doesn't see....i'd just try unplugging it and the plug it in before turning on the comp

[Conquest]

If you already formatted it there are some programs that can restore the files. If you haven't I would try the hard drive on another computer.

[kainbloodheart]

Hasn't been formated yet, but it dosn't work on my laptop, home pc or xbox :(

[Conquest]

You should probably check the manufacturer's site some of them have diagnostic tools for stuff like this.(or at least western digital does)

[kainbloodheart]

Its a western digital :)

[Ketsuron]

Try out RecoverMyFiles.

[r-18]

check the connection inside the drive case......

[kainbloodheart]

its so weird the computer registers it been there but thinkis its empty and needs to be formated

[r-18]

see if someone else's comp will see the files or maybe defrag it....have you tried dinking around with the tools in the device manager....