External hard drive does not work properly
Hi all
It is a slightly different external HARD drive problem. I had my faithful media ATMT bin since my first laptop with XP (2003) and I bought it in 2005. It's a little wobbly as the fan vibrates a lot, but this isn't a problem. What is the problem, is that I have a windows machine 7 who thinks that drive a need to put in shape, but my previous laptop which has vista on it was absolutely no problem to read the files IN ALL and you can open one of them without a hitch. I tried to run CHKDSK I:\I (it is labeled as the I drive :) and 7 claims that it is in the format RAW. I had a look at CHKDSK on my old machine and it is in FAT32, I since changed it to NTFS, but seems to have no effect. I also tried the hunting of the drivers for the external hard drive, but I come only through links to Amazon as these things are always available.
I really need to access this drive on my current computer as the older one needs a considerable cooling method to make it work therefore the latest machine. What I also don't understand, it's that it was working absolutely fine on this machine too until quite recently. He worked on it that I need, but have not been accessed for a while and so solutions in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much for your time.
RM
Your drive has reached its copy by date and it works on time taken (if he is stil)
If this does not work on another PC then it's probably dead.
You can try the utility disk SeaTools from Seagate to check and see if it can detect and report on the drive
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