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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Nessiah on July 18, 2011, 04:10:22 pm

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: Nessiah on July 18, 2011, 04:10:22 pm

My External Harddisk was unsafely removed and then it starts asking me to format it. It's a Seagate External HDD 320 gigs (I'll look for the model again later, sorry!) and when I checked it with Test Disk and Disk Manager and other various tools it say it's RAW. When I try to format it, Windows 7 gives me some crap like it's protected...

So I tried changing the registry AND in Disk Manager to enable writing. Except...it still doesn't work. It runs really slow on my laptop to get the properties or to unblock processes it disable with Unlocker. I am running out of ideas :C Please halp?

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: Vellfire on July 18, 2011, 11:18:25 pm

I don't know how to help you but I will say that I had a Seagate drive (not external though) that completely died on me about a year after having it.

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: Carrion Crow on July 19, 2011, 10:35:25 am

They must all be shit then.

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: big ass skelly on July 19, 2011, 12:20:09 pm

I have a 500 mb seagate drive from about 15 years ago that still works!!

Also no idea nessiah, sorry

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: Carrion Crow on July 19, 2011, 02:40:43 pm

I love the sci-fi style drone that old HDDs make. We put a 2 gig HDD in a Mac SE for awesomeness and it booted in 13s.

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: datamanc3r on July 28, 2011, 02:46:56 am

What steps did you take exactly to try to remedy the issue?

Title: External Hard Disk RAW?
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on August 14, 2011, 01:58:54 am

maybe you ruined the MBR, run fdisk or something similar to rebuild it