Hi! Thought I'd write here as a last resort to my problem... I certainly hope you guys can help! I have a Buffalo External 1000Gb hard drive, and I've been using it for two or three months. Now suddenly when I tried to copy a certain game to my computer from there, it threw me with an error(CRC). It did the same with various other files, so I copied all the important files that I could to my computer and tried to format it. Except I couldn't. XP wouldn't do a thing, just stay for hours and hours at "formatting 0%". Then I interrupted, and XP wouldn't even show it at my Computer after that. I tried Ubuntu, and it could access the hard drive normally. So I tried formatting it with that. To no avail. I've tried to format it from the installation disk, but it just says that the partition cannot be formatted. Is it now time to go to the shop I bought it from and say "give me a new one", or do you guys have anything else that I could try? Thank you! PS. Tried chkdsk /F, didn't work either :')
couple of very informative links for you..## http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Linux-bad-sector-detection-repair--ftopict482198.html http://www.datarecovery.com.sg/data_recovery/bad_sector_on_hard_disk.htm try both
As long as it's under warranty I would return it. If chkdsk won't work on it, it probably need to be replaced. More than likely the hard drive is still good but the electronics in the box are bad.
Hi , i got a replacement hard drive from Hp for my compaq laptop which was running vista premium and is still under warranty .Problem is i never got round to doing a back up disk as it had sysyem recovery built in to it. Now Hp tell me i have to purchase a new Hp recovery disk . Does anyone know another way around this please ?
