I have a new external hard drive, I partitioned and formated it as standard. Later I decide to change the name of the drive in windows explorer but the page hung. I forced close explorer. rebooted the computer but cannot see the external drive now, not in disk management, explorer or partition magic. I assume that the drive name is corrupt, do you know how I can save the drive?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&sd=tech See if there is any information in the link above that might get you back to where you were. Maybe the Drive Letter is blank but the drive will still show when you apply the above.
Hi, The problem is that I cant see the drive in disk management so I have no manipulation of the drive. Thanks.
I would look on the HDD's manufacturer and locate their disk management software to redo the drive then.
The problem being is that I cant see the drive to add the software. I have just put the drive back in through USB and I can see the drive (E but when looking at the properties, there is no space on the disk. This is because the partition is corrupt. So, I downloaded Partition Table Doctor, but, it can't see the volume on the E: drive. It seems very odd that a program that is supposed to fix partitions cannot see drives with corrupt partitions. Anyone any other ideas?
The hard drive is a Toshiba, model MK-4019GAX The support page is here: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/stora...=product&ptype=&frame=content&model=MK4019GAX I cant see anything about a support software download though. Thanks ScubaBud
hi try to contact your reseller first before doing anything to your external drive maybe it is in ntfs partition, so i suggest next time try to use fat32...
I put the drive into a laptop and managed to get the partition back, I couldnt get into repair but I did manage to install windows on it which fixed the partition and I later deleted the windows folder. Thanks for all your help and advice, I now know what to do in the future. Cheers!
