How to Initialize HDD without losing Data?

[farhanzakri]

   

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

[davo]

   

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

[pedellen]

   

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