My external Hard Drive suddenly lost it's format.
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My external Hard Drive suddenly lost it's format.
I have an external 3TB LaCie Big Disk Quadra that lost it's format. It shows up in the device manager but as Unallocated and says I need to initialize and format it which just is NOT an option. The Drive is GPT NTFS formatted and I need to know how to repair the filesystem and make the drive usable without reformatting it.
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Re: My external Hard Drive suddenly lost it's format.
Run TestDisk, Advanced, select the partition, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If it works, choose Write and confirm, Quit and restart your computer.