Trying to fix undetectable WD 1TB HDD
Posted: 22 Mar 2012, 02:43
Hi Fiona,
First of all thanks for being such a great help to all of us here.
Currently I'm trying to fix my external WD 1TB HDD that had just died on me out of the sudden. it shows the symptoms of a corrupted partitio whereby the disk management display "unallocated space".
I ran the testdisk program and the first analysis shows only the following message and no partition was detected:
Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55
So right now i'm doing a quick search on the HDD.
I'd like to know what does the message means?
One more thing, the HDD is now connected internally to my office PC for this troubleshooting and its detected in the disk management but not initialized. Do i need to initialize it for the testdisk to work?
Sorry for the noob questions..
First of all thanks for being such a great help to all of us here.
Currently I'm trying to fix my external WD 1TB HDD that had just died on me out of the sudden. it shows the symptoms of a corrupted partitio whereby the disk management display "unallocated space".
I ran the testdisk program and the first analysis shows only the following message and no partition was detected:
Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55
So right now i'm doing a quick search on the HDD.
I'd like to know what does the message means?
One more thing, the HDD is now connected internally to my office PC for this troubleshooting and its detected in the disk management but not initialized. Do i need to initialize it for the testdisk to work?
Sorry for the noob questions..