portable hard drive not working with my computer

[Ekim]

I had the same problem and followed these instructions and it worked.

Originally Posted by jwscuba
OK, I will try to keep this as simple as I can. I common problem with external hard drives (any hard drive for that matter, just maybe a tad bit more common with external drives) is they lose there partition information. The very beginning sector of the hard drive has the MBR on it which holds your partition table. It is very likely that this might be corrupt or damage.

If your computer recognizes your drive (ie. if the drive is listed under disk management and/or in you device manager) but the drive shows nothing but unallocated space then this is most likely the problem.

In this case DO NOT create a new partition in windows. This will reformat the drive and make your life very difficult.

You will need a tool that can repair your MBR (not fixmbr from the dos prompt) this almost never works unless your mbr is still readable in some way.

I use Acronis Disk Director Suite it works great for more than just this and is a great tool to have on hand. Other ones are Active Partition recovery (untested by me) and Partition Table Doctor (also untested).

In Acronis open the Recovery Expert tool. Tell it to try to recover a partition. Select the advanced and manual modes. What his will do is look at the old MBR and see if it could read anything from there (like the fixmbr command only acronis allows you to choose the repair) then it scans the entire drive, it just looks at the type of data in each sector so it works pretty fast. You will see a list (most I have ever had in 4, you might just get 1) of possible partitions. Select the one that looks correct (I just look at total drive space and how much free space it reports would be left to try and determine) and follow the on screen directions. Once your back in Acronis' main screen you will now see your drive with a drive letter. We aren't done yet though the change doesn't actually take effect until you commit it to the drive (there should be a little race flag icon at the top of the screen) that will write the MBR and not touch any other portion of the drive and it should just work. ( I have had a 100% success rate, although it isn't a guarantee). If it didn't work and you had more than 1 partition choice when doing the recovery try it again. You should be able to keep doing it as the only thing that get overwritten is the MBR.

For those of you that have already re-formatted the drive this will most likely not work. You may be able to do the steps to rebuild the partition as it was but you will most likely have a blank drive still (that doesn't mean that acronis didn't rebuild the partition correctly it is just because you have already formatted the drive) Acronis also has the ability to recover data, it works like the partition recover so just step through the process. It isn't nearly as successful though. Sometime you will get everything, sometimes nothing sometimes you will be able to see the files but they won't open because the data is corrupt. A general rule is the less you mess with the drive the better your chances.

Anyway I hope this helps some people.

[bas]

http://www.devilived.com/2007/01/03/...y_digiwiz.html

a nice boot cd for xp....

when i clich on the link this is the message am getting now

Warning: main(/home/devil/public_html/language//website.lng): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/devil/public_html/engine/init.php on line 162 Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/devil/public_html/language//website.lng' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/devil/public_html/engine/init.php on line 162 Unable to load the template: fullstory.tpl

can anybody tell me what does this mean

well i found another link with the rapidshare rar files and am using rapget v.1.39 to download them but am getting a link is corrupted message. i need some help here guys

[bas]

i have some information here that might help you to help me, here goes

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