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need help to access External hard drive

Jan 2, 2007 3:43AM PST

Thanks for reading this post; I really need help to access my external hard drive.
Yesterday, I defragmenter my external hard drive, thinking it?s going to be more efficient. Now the drive is not recognizing by my laptop. I have checked all the connections and tried turning hard drive off and on several time but still no hope.

On disk management panel I can find a external hard drive, but there is no letter assign to it, and under status it shows healthy status, but I still can?t access any of my files. I have tried almost everything that I knew to make it work but still nothing happens.

Please help me to resolve this issue!
By the way I am running XP Pro on Compaq P4 Notebook.

Thanx

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Try ZAR
Jan 2, 2007 4:03AM PST

Zero Assumption Recovery is the usual. Once you see what it might do then it's a simple question of "Are my files worth it?"

PC File Inspector is free but won't repair it.

-> Let me share that if you had the drive as a FAT32 volume such a disappearing act is common.

Bob

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(NT) Can you assign a drive letter to it ?
Jan 2, 2007 6:51AM PST
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(NT) Yes, I can assign letter to it!
Jan 4, 2007 7:13AM PST