Greetings.
One day, I noticed that an external HDD that I was using was failing quite badly when it came to copy/pasting anything in it. It was quite weird because I could watch videos that I stored there or look at some pictures with nothing awkward happening.
However, when I wanted to store something in it, it stopped copying after a while and suddenly disconnected to reconnect right away making me unable to add anything in it. Even weirder, it works fine with .rar or .zip that are 5GB+ but the previous trouble ONLY happens if I'm trying to store a folder.
The problem happened on both of my computers (A laptop and a desktop, both on XP).
After a while, I decided to try to find a solution for this really annoying matter and could read on the net that a chkdsk /f could take care of that.
After typing "cmd" in Run, I inputted chkdsk /f but it told me the device was used by another process even though nothing was using it at the moment.
I pressed Yes when it asked me if the chkdsk could be run next time the system will restart.
So, I just restarted it still plugged in and once I saw the chkdsk starting, I just decided to go do something else and chill.
When I came back, the laptop was done and booted normally.
Problem is, the HDD isn't detected anymore. As in, it doesn't appear in my computer. Doesn't matter how many times I restarted my computer nor plugged it in/out, it still couldn't recognize it.
It also doesn't also appear in Disk Management anymore. When I plug it in, the LED's HDD is turned on and I can feel it working as usual when I touch it but it can't be recognied by either my laptop or desktop (again, they both run on XP).
So yeah, does someone have an idea of what's happening ?
I don't know if there are any other datas that might help you guys so please feel free to ask if you require more information.
So far, here's what I can say:
-It's an external USB HDD. 250GB made by Freecom classical model 3.0
-File system is NTFS.
-I have 3 USB cables and all of them works fine with other devices so I doubt the cables have anything to do with that.
-I have 2 computers on windows XP, both show the same results.
-I checked on Freecom's website, there is no driver that I can download there.h
PS: I would have easily laughed while saying that it sure didn't last long in just 1 year while throwing it away to buy another one but I also had some very important files related to my work in it and I will be in one hell of a pinch if I can't manage to get them back.
One day, I noticed that an external HDD that I was using was failing quite badly when it came to copy/pasting anything in it. It was quite weird because I could watch videos that I stored there or look at some pictures with nothing awkward happening.
However, when I wanted to store something in it, it stopped copying after a while and suddenly disconnected to reconnect right away making me unable to add anything in it. Even weirder, it works fine with .rar or .zip that are 5GB+ but the previous trouble ONLY happens if I'm trying to store a folder.
The problem happened on both of my computers (A laptop and a desktop, both on XP).
After a while, I decided to try to find a solution for this really annoying matter and could read on the net that a chkdsk /f could take care of that.
After typing "cmd" in Run, I inputted chkdsk /f but it told me the device was used by another process even though nothing was using it at the moment.
I pressed Yes when it asked me if the chkdsk could be run next time the system will restart.
So, I just restarted it still plugged in and once I saw the chkdsk starting, I just decided to go do something else and chill.
When I came back, the laptop was done and booted normally.
Problem is, the HDD isn't detected anymore. As in, it doesn't appear in my computer. Doesn't matter how many times I restarted my computer nor plugged it in/out, it still couldn't recognize it.
It also doesn't also appear in Disk Management anymore. When I plug it in, the LED's HDD is turned on and I can feel it working as usual when I touch it but it can't be recognied by either my laptop or desktop (again, they both run on XP).
So yeah, does someone have an idea of what's happening ?
I don't know if there are any other datas that might help you guys so please feel free to ask if you require more information.
So far, here's what I can say:
-It's an external USB HDD. 250GB made by Freecom classical model 3.0
-File system is NTFS.
-I have 3 USB cables and all of them works fine with other devices so I doubt the cables have anything to do with that.
-I have 2 computers on windows XP, both show the same results.
-I checked on Freecom's website, there is no driver that I can download there.h
PS: I would have easily laughed while saying that it sure didn't last long in just 1 year while throwing it away to buy another one but I also had some very important files related to my work in it and I will be in one hell of a pinch if I can't manage to get them back.