Problem with External Harddrive

Amprodude

I have an Iomega External 1TB Harddrive which is about 6years old now. It's has its own power source. I bought a 4TB Seagate multimedia drive for my tv and I want to copy all films from the Iomega drive to the Seagate multimedia drive. I have one folder in the iomega drive which is about 200GB of films, I tried copying it first to my laptop but an error message comes upon laptop display saying that there is a problem with drive and it needs to scan for issues. When you select ok, it tells me that I need to format drive before using, I can't do that as I have 1TB of stuff to transfer in total.

Any solutions?

Thanks

riclad

See here,
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056920320

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
or use testdisk to recover data.
try it in another pc, or laptop, netcafe pc.

Open case, make sure data, power to disk is tight ,in all the way on both ends , pb, and drive interface.
You may need to put it in a caddy to acess the drive.
Or install it in a pc, swith off,pc,remove power cable from esb socket.
Maybe use data,power cables from dvd drive as a temporary connection,

Rather than buying a 3.5inch sata caddy enclosure.

Search boards ie faulty external drive,
this issue comes here every 2 weeks, cannot acess drive

Could be loose cables, bad pcb, inside drive case.


See

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/226218-windows-unable-format-external-hard-drive.html

Amprodude

riclad wrote: »

See here,
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056920320

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
or use testdisk to recover data.
try it in another pc, or laptop, netcafe pc.

Open case, make sure data, power to disk is tight ,in all the way on both ends , pb, and drive interface.
You may need to put it in a caddy to acess the drive.
Or install it in a pc, swith off,pc,remove power cable from esb socket.
Maybe use data,power cables from dvd drive as a temporary connection,

Rather than buying a 3.5inch sata caddy enclosure.

Search boards ie faulty external drive,
this issue comes here every 2 weeks, cannot acess drive

Could be loose cables, bad pcb, inside drive case.


See

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/226218-windows-unable-format-external-hard-drive.html

Replaced cables of the external harddrive and it now works a treat. Copying away files now the way it should be. Thanking you for the advice.

riclad

Well you can buy new cables for a few euro,if you need them, in a pc shop.
Sometimes sata, cables get loose, especally data cable.