WD My Passport Unable to Access
Posted: 03 Jan 2013, 16:59
Hi All,
I did try WD forums but nothing, and the internet all say come to CGSecurity - so here I am!
Over the weekend I was backing up to my WD My Passport 500Gb and an error occurred half way through the backup. After this the drive became inaccessible and froze my home py running Vista 64bit.
I have brought the drive in to work and for the past 6 hours it has been scanning testdisk and could not find any partition. To my embarrassment I cannot remember partitioning the drive when purchasing. It was a "plug and dump" when it arrived and so has been the case over the past year.
I will say though, my work pc running Windows 7 advises that the drive must be formatted to be able to use it. I have cancelled this notification every time.
I have to admit not to understanding what I should be doing, naturally the drive includes a lot of personal data I do not wish to lose.
Can anyone hep? After analyzing the disk it asked me to add a partition and have me the option for Cylinder etc. then I was lost!
Thanks everyone in advance
I did try WD forums but nothing, and the internet all say come to CGSecurity - so here I am!
Over the weekend I was backing up to my WD My Passport 500Gb and an error occurred half way through the backup. After this the drive became inaccessible and froze my home py running Vista 64bit.
I have brought the drive in to work and for the past 6 hours it has been scanning testdisk and could not find any partition. To my embarrassment I cannot remember partitioning the drive when purchasing. It was a "plug and dump" when it arrived and so has been the case over the past year.
I will say though, my work pc running Windows 7 advises that the drive must be formatted to be able to use it. I have cancelled this notification every time.
I have to admit not to understanding what I should be doing, naturally the drive includes a lot of personal data I do not wish to lose.
Can anyone hep? After analyzing the disk it asked me to add a partition and have me the option for Cylinder etc. then I was lost!
Thanks everyone in advance