Hero_X
05-09-2016, 01:09 AM
Hey everyone,
So few days ago i decided to "defragment" my desktop and ran the utility by right C drive and proceeding. However, before it started, I unplugged the usb cable to my external harddrive because I didn't want to defragment it (I don't know if it would help). Anyway next day when I turned on my computer i noticed my external drive wasn't showing on my computer (I had plugged it in of course). I tried several different usb ports and it didn't work.
Then I tried my laptop, and it some how worked.. or at least appeared. I got a feeling my drive may be dying so I decided i should back up everything to my other drive, I started the process and left it over night. Came back to it and not much had transferred, the transfer rate had dropped to 100 kb/s. Again I wasn't sure wtf was going on so what I did was I opened up the WD enclosure and connected the internal drive to another enclosure. Connected it to my PC and bam, again drive doesn't show up on my computer.
I clicked disk management and it shows up there as a 3tb disk which is unallocated. Windows prompts me to "initialize" the drive and I clicked cancel.
So I have a LOT of data on this drive and I really need to get it off this drive. I'm guessing the drive is fcked but is there ANYWAY I can extract the data off of the drive?
Please help me! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
NOTE:
The drive is a Western Digital "My Book Essential" 3Tb drive.
So few days ago i decided to "defragment" my desktop and ran the utility by right C drive and proceeding. However, before it started, I unplugged the usb cable to my external harddrive because I didn't want to defragment it (I don't know if it would help). Anyway next day when I turned on my computer i noticed my external drive wasn't showing on my computer (I had plugged it in of course). I tried several different usb ports and it didn't work.
Then I tried my laptop, and it some how worked.. or at least appeared. I got a feeling my drive may be dying so I decided i should back up everything to my other drive, I started the process and left it over night. Came back to it and not much had transferred, the transfer rate had dropped to 100 kb/s. Again I wasn't sure wtf was going on so what I did was I opened up the WD enclosure and connected the internal drive to another enclosure. Connected it to my PC and bam, again drive doesn't show up on my computer.
I clicked disk management and it shows up there as a 3tb disk which is unallocated. Windows prompts me to "initialize" the drive and I clicked cancel.
So I have a LOT of data on this drive and I really need to get it off this drive. I'm guessing the drive is fcked but is there ANYWAY I can extract the data off of the drive?
Please help me! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
NOTE:
The drive is a Western Digital "My Book Essential" 3Tb drive.