Serious equipment malfunction
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jumulka Posted messages 12090 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
jumulka Posted messages 12090 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
oyé la populace, I come to you because I am at an impasse. I cannot open my external hard drive due to a "serious hardware error of the device." I checked, it is detected as healthy but in RAW format, and on TestDisk, it is recognized as "none." I do not wish to recover the data but only the hard drive. Thank you in advance.
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Hello,
either the file system is corrupted, or the adapter is faulty, or the hard drive is defective.
you can try to format it, even manually in the cmd:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x (x being the number of the hard drive in the list above)
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
either the file system is corrupted, or the adapter is faulty, or the hard drive is defective.
you can try to format it, even manually in the cmd:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x (x being the number of the hard drive in the list above)
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
Can we retrieve the files afterwards?
If you have a raw hard drive and want to recover files, first try TestDisk > https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Etape_par_Etape
download https://www.cgsecurity.org/Download_and_donate.php/testdisk-7.2-WIP.win64.zip
with this formatting, you should be able to recover some files with recovery software