I would really appreciate some help and advice. Several months ago my external drive suddenly got corrupted (or something). There are so many files on there that I don't want to lose. Since then, I purchased another external desktop hard drive that is going to stay on my desk and I will copy files from my FreeAgent periodically so this doesn't happen again.
Anyway, I am trying to do a scan on this drive and I get several different errors when I try to recover. It's either "drive needs formatted (which I say NO, PLEASE!!!)" or else I get an the request cannot be completed because of an I/O error."
I would REALLY appreciate input.
Thanks so much
Dawn
P.S. Why won't it let me "safely eject" the drive too?!?!
Recuva doesn't recover from RAW drives, you could either try to repair the drive with TestDisk or use another recovery program.
Richard S.
Hi, Dawn 807. Welcome. ![:D]()
I have a 500 gb Seagate Freeagent external usb drive, ntfs formatted, several years old. Used to store software and kid's pictures. Running windows xp.
Sometimes, not often, it just doesn't show properly in windows explorer. Either the drive is found but it's icon does not show, or the drive just isn't found. When this happens, windows explorer sometimes shows it as a RAW drive. It has done this for a long time.
Anyway Dawn, a workaround that you might try, it works here: I safely remove it, unplug the power and let it spin down (there is no on/off switch), then plug the power back in first and then plug in the usb cable. It then shows up with it's little icon and all is well. If I cannot safely remove it, I turn the computer off then unplug the usb cable, restart, plug it back in...pain in the neck, but it works.
I intend to very soon replace it and use it only for periodic backups. That way if it goes blooey only the latest backup set will be lost.
Hi, Dawn 807. Welcome. ![:D]()
I have a 500 gb Seagate Freeagent external usb drive, ntfs formatted, several years old. Used to store software and kid's pictures. Running windows xp.
Sometimes, not often, it just doesn't show properly in windows explorer. Either the drive is found but it's icon does not show, or the drive just isn't found. When this happens, windows explorer sometimes shows it as a RAW drive. It has done this for a long time.
Anyway Dawn, a workaround that you might try, it works here: I safely remove it, unplug the power and let it spin down (there is no on/off switch), then plug the power back in first and then plug in the usb cable. It then shows up with it's little icon and all is well. If I cannot safely remove it, I turn the computer off then unplug the usb cable, restart, plug it back in...pain in the neck, but it works.
I intend to very soon replace it and use it only for periodic backups. That way if it goes blooey only the latest backup set will be lost.
Thanks Abjure but this probably won't work for me. As a matter of fact, this one has no power supply . . . the USB and PC are the power. Appreciate the info.
Recuva doesn't recover from RAW drives, you could either try to repair the drive with TestDisk or use another recovery program.
Richard S.
Thanks Richard, I'll check this out. Appreciate the info.