Is my HDD Dead?

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wassi

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While copying files to my external drive I accadentialy unpluged it. As a result I now can not accsess the drive nor can I format the drive. My questtion is as follows: Can i get this thing working again?

Thanks for your help.

(Note: The drive does show up in windows )
 
Does the drive show up in the BIOS or Windows? Thats your first indicator of failure. Not detected by your computer (or any other computer for that matter) means its a dud.
 
if you can see it in windows, i'm assuming it has a drive letter... but you can't open the drive.

i had an external drive do something similar a few days ago... because i bumped the cord and it insta-cycled the power to the drive.

you should be able to fix your drive by running something like...

chkdsk driveLetter: /f

good luck.
 
take the drive out of the enclosure and connect it internally.
Get a hdd recovery bootable cd and try that.
Then put it back in the enclosure and try a different usb port.
 
I tried running chkdsk but it wont work, i get an error saying "chkdsk is not available for RAW drives"
 
take the drive out of the enclosure and connect it internally.
Get a hdd recovery bootable cd and try that.
then put it back in the enclosure and try a different usb port.
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If all fails this is my last resort.
 
It sounds like the partition info may have been damaged if Winblows thinks it is a RAW drive. Dig around for some data recovery programs on the net. Most offer a free version that will scan the drive to see what it can see, and then give you the option to buy the program to actually save your data. I am pretty anal about backups anymore, so I have not had to try to recover data in a long time.

If the data is not important, try right clicking the partition box in Disk Manager and seeing if it gives you the option of creating a partition.

If you know the builder of the drive, you can go to their web site and get their diagnostic program to test the drive.

Don
 
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