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External Hard Drive I/O Error
- I have a brand new Seagate FreeAgent | Desk™ 1.0-TB USB 2.0 Drive
After backing up all my data, approx. 120 GB i shut down my desktop and after few hours i wanted to backup some more. but the drive is no longer accessible. I get 2 different I/O error every time i double click on my drive icon on both my desktop with Windows XP SP3 & Sony VAIO with Windows Vista SP2. Please check Screenshots: Error 1 & Error 2
Some of the data in the hard drive was valuable so i used seagate's file recovery for windows and was able to recover the data. The complete contents of the hard drive were accessible for recovery via the software. but the hard disk still gives I/O error and is not accessible. I'm not concerned about the data as i already have it on my other drive. I Want to format the hard drive and make it usable. Please help.
Anurag Ghorpade.- Edited byDesiSpunk Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:17 AM
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- Hello,
Have you tried going to Control Pannel >> Computer Management
Click "Disk Management" from the tree on the left.
Does the Drive display?
if so, right click on the partition info and left click delete partition.
Create the partition again by right clicking in the same area and selecting "New Partition"
Format the partition (do a full format Not Quick)
format NTFS if you dont plan on using the drive in windows 9x machines.
if you are unable to complete the steps above you may have a faulty drive.- Edited byA70M1C Friday, August 28, 2009 1:12 AM
