Ryan Morgan
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- Jan 17, 2024
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Hi Ryan Morgan,Hello, I have encountered an unpleasant event. My external hard drive has stopped working. The disc is no longer readable . When I connect the disc to my computer, the system asks me to format it.
There are very important files on the disc.
Does anyone know how to help me?
I tried to connect the disc to a Linux virtual machine, but the disc is not readable either. I just don't understand what exactly happened to it, I had a FAT system and now RAW. It's a pity, but I can't afford to take it to the workshop. So I decided to find a solution myself.Hey Ryan, welcome to CF.
If you haven't formatted the drive yourself then if it's showing a RAW partition suddenly then it would indicate some issue with the drive.
Potentially one thing to try would be to live boot a version of Linux such as Ubuntu or Linux mint to see if it can read the drive where Windows is failing to recognise it.
However chances are at best the drive is corrupted, at worst it has physically failed.
In these cases your best option is going to be to use a data recovery service - be warned, doing so is not cheap at all...
Change the hard drive from HDD TO SSD.Hello, I have encountered an unpleasant event. My external hard drive has stopped working. The disc is no longer readable . When I connect the disc to my computer, the system asks me to format it.
There are very important files on the disc.
Does anyone know how to help me?
Congrats.Bro, I managed to solve this problem.
I came across this video tutorial.
True, it cost me $97.95, but that's nothing compared to taking the disc to a technician. I risked losing my files forever. But I can't afford to pay a lot of money.
Let me tell you a little bit about how I did it.
I downloaded Hetman Partition Recovery, the program displayed my RAW drive, which used to be FAT, and started a full scan. It found most of my files and successfully recovered them. Yes, it couldn't recover all the files, but I was lucky: I recovered the most important ones .
And yes, make copies of important files (discs) for the future.
Also, thanks to everyone who tried to help me)