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by tpch
16 Nov 2015, 19:44
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 2TB external HDD
Replies: 3
Views: 1682

Re: 2TB external HDD

I've decided to try installing the HD into my PC rather than running it on a USB dock. Now that I've put it in and I'm in Windows, it shows up in Device Manager (as it did with the USB dock), but this time it also partially recognises it in Device Manager. Specifically it gives me this

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by tpch
16 Nov 2015, 08:18
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 2TB external HDD
Replies: 3
Views: 1682

Re: 2TB external HDD

Thanks for replying. That's a shame that it sounds like a hardware problem. The drive was showing up perfectly before in Windows, device manager, and disk management. Now only in device manager.

Anyway, just in case it sheds any more light, here is the testdisk log (which I thought I'd attavched ...
by tpch
15 Nov 2015, 12:35
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: 2TB external HDD
Replies: 3
Views: 1682

2TB external HDD

Hi

I recently had a Samsung Story 2TB external drive fail on me. I've tried testdisk, but think I've gone wrong somewhere and possibly written over something which is now causing the drive to not show up in Windows (it shows in Device Manager under disk drives as HDD USB Device, but doesn't show up ...