Helppppppppppppp please

[quest63]

I have a n external USB hard drive that I cant access.

It shows up in Disk manager albeit without a drive letter but not in My Computer.
It shows up in computer management in disk drives

Right clicking on it provides mostly greyed out options.

It has 3 partitions
A healthy 200mb system partition
A healthy 1394.94 GB Primary partition
And a 128mb unallocated partition

I have tried
uninstalling and re installing
disabling and enabing
Rescan disks
Windows reports I have the best updated driver
The only option I get when I right click the primary partition is delete volume

All suggestions greatly welcomed

Thanks in advance

 

[r53bertyboo]

Try right clicking on it in Disk Management and assigning a drive letter to it.

 

[quest63]

Cheers peeps but it will only give me the option to delete volume :thumbs:

 

[evilrob]

What version of Windows are you running?

I'm guessing from its capacity the drive is quite old. Does Disk Manager tell you the file system?

 

[quest63]

Hiya Rob sorry I missed out the GB from the big number its a 1.5 TB drive

Its windows 7 and I just tried unticking the hide volumes with no data check box but that didn't work.

No the file system is not stated

 

[evilrob]

What is the history of this drive?

Is it brand new? Has the drive been removed from something else and put into a USB enclosure or is it a branded external hard drive (i.e. the drive and enclosure came together)?

Odd that the file system isn't recognised (are you sure you're looking in the right place - would say in the top half); did it used to be connected to a Mac?

 

[quest63]

I have no idea what the history might be I only just acquired it, its Iomega branded and has a Samsung drive in it I don't know if this is usual or not?

Its entirely possible it was used with a Mac

 

[Cartman]

I had a disc crash onse, i hocked it up to a ps3 an was able to empty the contents onto a different disc, and reformate it. Stil Works today

 

[quest63]

If it helps any I have no need to access the data if any that's on there I just need it to work.

 

[evilrob]

I have no idea what the history might be I only just acquired it, its Iomega branded and has a Samsung drive in it I don't know if this is usual or not?

Its entirely possible it was used with a Mac

That's not unusual, but I'd avoid trying to connect the bare drive to anything by any other means than the enclosure it came with; quite often there is gubbins between the physical drive and what is output via USB (LBA translation or RAID for example).

Try installing an HFS driver; this will enable Windows to read the drive if it was formatted on a Mac:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows-free/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[evilrob]

If it helps any I have no need to access the data if any that's on there I just need it to work.

Remove the partitions (aka volumes), repartition it and format as NTFS then - simples.

 

[quest63]

I just right clicked the drive to delete it and got a message saying the drive wasn't formatted by windows and might contain data used by another operating system.

Im curious now lol is there a HFS driver for win 7 the link above said its for 8 and 8.1 only?

 

[tuonokid]

Hi Guys
Watching this with interest as my old computer just expired and the builder of my new computer turned my old hard drive into a USB external drive. Yet to try it though as I'm a complete numpty with computers and don't want to destroy the contents on the disc.
Barry

 

[evilrob]

I just right clicked the drive to delete it and got a message saying the drive wasn't formatted by windows and might contain data used by another operating system.

Im curious now lol is there a HFS driver for win 7 the link above said its for 8 and 8.1 only?

Oh yeah, you did say you had 7 - sorry about that.

For some reason there isn't a free version for Windows 7 but there is a trial:
http://www.paragon-drivers.com/hfs-windows/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[quest63]

Cheers Rob, its sorted now I took the delete route and will find its arse being pimped on ebay asap :grin:

Is it usual for an Iomega enclosure to have a Samsung drive in it? do Iomega not make their own drives?

Cheers peeps

 

[evilrob]

Is it usual for an Iomega enclosure to have a Samsung drive in it?

Don't know; I imagine they sling in whatever is cheapest at the time.

do Iomega not make their own drives?

Not any more; they used to make removable media back in the day (Zip Drives - anyone remember them!?)

 

[quest63]

Cheers Rob :thumbs:

 

[red]

I had an iomega ZIP drive :lol:

 

[3dcandy]

Iomega never made hard drives, they used the cheapest at the time as said above...
If you get stuck any further I can help

 

[evilrob]

I had an iomega ZIP drive :lol:

You posh twat! :lol: