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Title: How to Initialize HDD without losing Data?
Post by: farhanzakri on November 28, 2009, 09:14:17 AM

Hi

I bought a Buffalo external power cabled hard disk 500gb a few months back and have around 300gb of very very important data on it. Recently when I tried plugging in the hard disk, it could not be detected in "My computer". I checked "Computer Management" where I could locate the HDD, but it said that, it needs to be initialized before "the local disk manager can access it". It asks me to select either of the 2 partition styles - MBR or GPT? I am not sure if i should select either of them as I DON"T WANT TO LOSE ANY DATA! It's really important. What do I do?

-INTROUBLE

Title: Re: How to Initialize HDD without losing Data?
Post by: davo on November 29, 2009, 03:52:34 PM

Bring it to professional data recovery. Why (if the data was SOOOOO important as you say) did you not keep a backup of it?!

Title: Re: How to Initialize HDD without losing Data?
Post by: pedellen on December 19, 2009, 09:38:14 AM

You are so right - and especially not depend on a buffalo nas product :-)

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