External hard drive has stopped working

[LG]

Until today my Buffalo external hard drive  (HD-PNTU3) has been working fine. But now it won't open and tells me that it is not formatted. If I re-format I will lose the data that I haven't backed up during the past week (the rest is backed up). I have tried it on another computer but the problem remains. Is there a simple solution or will I have to contact a recovery service?

[jjinp]

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[andus123]

hi friend,
No need to worry.There are many cases due to which external hard drive crashes and not works.Don't worry! The data is not lost forever; it is only invisible to you. You might be thinking that the disk will overwrite the space of the deleted data with some other data. Running a wrong data recovery software application might corrupt your data and there are chances of losing them forever. By using a good external hard drive recovery software you can recover all your lost data from corrupted hard drive,crashed hard drives.For more information you can check the link: http://www.datarecovery-software.net/external-hard-drive.html" target="_self">http://www.datarecovery-software.net/external-hard-drive.htmlYou can easily http://www.datarecovery-software.net/download/datarecovery-software-windows.exe" target="_self">download the free trial version of the software.:wave:

[ComputerJunky11]

I'm posting this elsewhere on the internet, b/c it helped me so much. 

 

My Buffalo 500GB (HD-PCT500U2/B-US) hard drive went down last week and was unusable (it said "reformat needed"). I've read numerous posts by people who simply threw away their HDD when this happened.

 

1. I took some advice from an IT friend at Siemens and and he had me run the following hard drive check: "

 

You can plug it in and go to command line and the drive letter for your external followed by : and then hit enter then type ATTRIB -S -H *.* /S /D press enter" At this point, command prompt said "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)".

 

2. I Googled "cyclic redundancy check" and came up with the following link: http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error" target="_blank">http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error

 

3. I followed the instructions at that url. It took several hours, but it repaired the HDD, which is now usable again. Glad I didn't throw it away. . . .

[silvate]

 

Hi, 

     Its I think your external hard drive got corrupt thats why you are unable to access your stored data in it. I recommond you it is better to use http://www.harddrivedatarecoverytools.com/external.html">External hard drive recovery software. This software helps you to recover all lost data even if you re-format it. So you can http://www.harddrivedatarecoverytools.com/download/harddrivedatarecoverytools-windows.exe">download its free trial version and try for recovery results.

 

BestLuck!

[edenstewart56]

Hello There,

                       If your hard disk is not working then it may be corrupted or its file system is having some sort of problem. There are many more reasons for external hard drive to make it stop responding properly to user. Though you have these problem but don't you worry as you can http://www.externaldriverecovery.com/external-hard-disk-data.html">recover external hard disk data. For this you need to use the recovery software. To get the one of the best recovery software you can get it through this mentioned http://www.externaldriverecovery.com/download/externaldriverecovery-windows.exe">download link.

 

Regards

Eden