portable HDD detected but not accessable

altomic on 24/03/2014 - 22:01

was given a 1tg portable HDD.

my netbook (win7) detects it.

I can see it in device manager.

but can't open it/format it, etc.

what is the easiest way to access this device?

thanks

Comments

[Deactivated] on 24/03/2014 - 22:22

Try a different usb port.
ESEMCE on 25/03/2014 - 10:46

Try a different Computer and try a different OS (ie boot into an Linux LiveCD (or USB))
- altomic on 25/03/2014 - 11:22
  
  just trying to format it on my hackintosh. usb 2 - slow
  - altomic on 25/03/2014 - 17:18
    
    formatted it in osx. -fat32
    whacked it in my XP machine -formatted again.
    
    transferring files from my win7 netbook. awesome.
    - ESEMCE on 26/03/2014 - 08:24
      
      Yeah for some reason *nix systems seem to be able to recover bad drives more frequently than Windows of any flavour…
      You should do a thorough scandisk on the drive too, could be some bad sectors that caused the original corruption, and I wouldn't use it for anything mission critical, cause it could be a hardware fault that caused the corruption.