Hard Drive not 'accessible'

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Dick Smith

Apologies but I am reposting this message as I cannot find it or any related
replies to it.

I may be in the wrong group so please bear with me and if necessary advise
me which group I need to approach.

I have an external hard drive in what my 'tech' man says is a handbag. Each
time I need to use that drive I insert into a space on the computer.

On this drive (200gb) I have very important files including tax returns
data, photographs and music.

Today I tried to access this drive and got the message ' I:\ is not
accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. '.

Can anybody enlighten me as to what has gone wrong and is there any way that
I can retrieve the important data. (I have no known viruses)

Please, any assistance will be appreciated otherwise I am in a deep deep
Dodo mire.

Dick
 
Have you contacted the manufacturer for support? This could be a tough one, ranging from connection (is it USB 2? firewire?) to the data truly being corrupted to a virus. Perhaps if you post the brand/model#, type of connection used, and anything else related, someone may have shared this same issue or know of a solution. Rest assured that data can almost always be retrieved, however. Sorry I couldn't be of more help at this time, but thought I'd see if you could provide more info so that I or someone else can. Best of luck.

-omega_v7
 
Dick said:
Apologies but I am reposting this message as I cannot find it or any
related replies to it.

I may be in the wrong group so please bear with me and if necessary
advise me which group I need to approach.

I have an external hard drive in what my 'tech' man says is a
handbag. Each time I need to use that drive I insert into a space on
the computer.

On this drive (200gb) I have very important files including tax
returns data, photographs and music.

Today I tried to access this drive and got the message ' I:\ is not
accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. '.

Can anybody enlighten me as to what has gone wrong and is there any
way that I can retrieve the important data. (I have no known viruses)

Please, any assistance will be appreciated otherwise I am in a deep
deep Dodo mire.

Dick
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As I have stated many, many, times before I have no sympathy for people who
can't be arsed to back up and then whine when they lose their data. If your
data was that precious you would have implemented a strict back-up routine.
As you haven't, I can only surmise you don't really care about the data at
all and just wish to whine. Maybe the loss of your data will teach you the
hard lesson you so sorely need.
 
Dear Miss "P T"
The person writing in (Dick Smith) to this newsgroup, came here for help,
not a lecture. It may have been different had you lectured, and THEN given
advice on the subject he requested an answer to. If you need to "Vent", or
do nothing but lecture, perhaps you should go elsewhere. I believe you are
one of a VERY FEW who are not here for the right reasons...To Help People
who request it. People likeYou give the impression that this is NOT the
place to go for answers. AND, if you read carefully in the original message,
it "Appears" as though this is an external HD, and could possibly BE the
back up from other data from things he's done. (OOPS, now I'M
lecturing...BUT, you deserve it). Get rid of that "Chip" on your shoulder,
and move on!!!

Dick,
Now, to try to attempt to help, you say you "insert it into a space on
the computer"...is this "Space" USB? Can you try opening up youre case, and
setting jumper of your OS Hard Drive to master, and this HD in question to
slave, to see if this helps? Perhaps more information from you will be
useful. What does your 'tech' man say? Please give any more information you
have.
Good Luck; Willie
 
Dear Willie,
Many thanks for your comments. You are in fact 90% correct when saying the
drive was a back up. I have one working drive which I do all the work on the
files and then transfer to the 'external drive' for future use. The idea was
once I had corrected and updated all the necessary files these would then be
copied to another disc for archive purposes.
If I can't access the corrupt disc it means I have to start from scratch on
the original and that means almost 12months of duplicated work. Ok the
'space' is not USB. I insert the 'handbag/carrier' into the PC and the hard
disc is then connected to the internal wiring (the broad cable that all
internal drives connect to). The corrupt disc had been working fine and then
on one boot up the disc was not recognised by the machine (I use XP). My
tech man has said he will be contacting Microsoft for some answers and he
said it's something to do with the 'address' or something between XP and the
disc. The slave and master settings have been working ok. I have four
internal hard discs and five external hard discs. I have checked the
remaining four and they are working ok. Once I get the make and any more
info from my techie I will post it to you. Once again many thanks for your
comments and interest.

Dick
 
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