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Theslaz
My portable Hd has crashed; why I don't know. It is a 500 Gig Western
Digital about 2 years old. It appears to power up but nothing will show
at the computer. I removed the Hd from the enclosure and connected it to
my computer via a USB port. The drive is a SATA and I'm using a USB 2.0
to IDE/Sata cable adapter. My computer does recognize the drive as drive
"K:". However; that is all it does. If I double click the drive letter I
always get the error message "The parameter is incorrect". If I go to
the command prompt; I cannot get to the drive. However; if I try the
CHKDSK command; it will give me the error message "that type of file
system is RAW; CHKDSK is not available for RAW devices". I have tried
three different "Data Recovery programs" that all claim to be able to
fix the "RAW" data problem. All three came up with negative results.
The drive is spinning and NOT clicking; so it appears to be physically
okay. I would like to retrieve the information on it; but if I don't it
won't be a big deal as I used it as my back up to my main computer. I
did run the "Format" command and it told me to ad the /FS switch to the
command; but that is as far as I went with that; for now!!
Any suggestions?? If I can not retrieve any info of this drive; will it
be possible to format??
Thanks in advance.
Digital about 2 years old. It appears to power up but nothing will show
at the computer. I removed the Hd from the enclosure and connected it to
my computer via a USB port. The drive is a SATA and I'm using a USB 2.0
to IDE/Sata cable adapter. My computer does recognize the drive as drive
"K:". However; that is all it does. If I double click the drive letter I
always get the error message "The parameter is incorrect". If I go to
the command prompt; I cannot get to the drive. However; if I try the
CHKDSK command; it will give me the error message "that type of file
system is RAW; CHKDSK is not available for RAW devices". I have tried
three different "Data Recovery programs" that all claim to be able to
fix the "RAW" data problem. All three came up with negative results.
The drive is spinning and NOT clicking; so it appears to be physically
okay. I would like to retrieve the information on it; but if I don't it
won't be a big deal as I used it as my back up to my main computer. I
did run the "Format" command and it told me to ad the /FS switch to the
command; but that is as far as I went with that; for now!!
Any suggestions?? If I can not retrieve any info of this drive; will it
be possible to format??
Thanks in advance.