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Hi,

I have a 500gb Ministation (HD-PC500U2/BK-EU) which was working fine (well the cable was sometimes a little temperamental, but otherwise fine) and then one day it just didn't work.  Didn't show up on my Dell Laptop (Windows Vista) - or any other computer I tried it on - PC or Mac.  For some reason now after a couple of months it shows up in the hard drives section of explorer, but when I go into properties it says it has 0 bytes of data on it and if I double click on it it comes up with a message saying: 'You need to format the disc in Drive G before you can use it.'

Does anyone know if there is anything I can do, or if it sounds like it's fried itself somehow?  I took extra good care of it, didn't ever drop it or such, it was working one evening, but not the next morning!

Any advice appreciated.  Many thanks, Jamie

Corrupt partition table, you would need to look into data recovery options. Why dont you have a backup?

Hi Davo, thanks for your reply, really appreciate you letting me know, as I didn't really know what it was.

Annoyingly a couple of days before it decided to do a swan dive, I had taken everything off of my laptop to upgrade to Windows 7, otherwise all the important stuff would have been on my laptop as well.  A good amount of it is backed up on DVDs, but a few thousand miles away in an attic! 

I thought it was worth seeing if anyone had a solution as a last ditched attempt before getting my Dad to have to find and sort the DVDs, as data recovery options are pretty non-exsitant in the Mexican Carribean!

Many thanks, Jamie