I have an external hard drive which had my back ups in two partitions.
I decided to delete all the files (recently acquired a laptop for back up purposes) and thought the easiest way was to format the entire drive.
Unfortunately, it appears that the drive is now useless. It has no partitions, and any attempt to load files on it is rejected on the grounds that is not formatted....... oh, yes it is!
Further attempts to format it again, by means of WinXP formatting tool or Partition Magic, fail. Incidentally, the drive shows on PM as 'bad'.
I imagine that,
in extremis, it would be worth removing the drive from its enclosure, installing it in a PC and doing an FDISK.
The enclosure appears to be sealed so that might not be too easy. I suppose that forcible entry would enable the drive to be saved but I wouldn't want to run the risk of damaging it in the attempt.
The long and the short of it is, can anybody suggest some means of resurrecting it, please?
Anyway, if you have been, thanks for reading. (Apologies and acknowledgements to the late John Ebdon).
Thanks, one and all.
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