External HDD crazy, please help.

[shubz]

Hi guys.
I have a 500GB LG external HDD, since yesterday whenever I connect to pc it says I need to format. However when I connect to my LG Blueray player it pics up and I can access all the media. Could you please advise how I can access via PC. I'm running Win7 64bit. I have tried data recovery software but nothing works the drive is partitioned into a 400gb and 80gb, I can however see the 80gb. Any advice?

[koeksGHT]

Whats the format type? NTFS, FAT, FAT32, other?

[shubz]

The 80 is fat32 the major portion which I can't access on pc is NTFS.

[NomNom]

Not sure if you are able to but try to run a scan disk on it.

[shubz]

Done the scandisk, still nothing. No hits on Google either.

[KhoisanX]

Try it on a PC running Linux, if your DVD player can access the drive then I'm reasonably sure it will work.

[Dalem44]

Check your ntfs drivers

[shubz]

Check your ntfs drivers

Hi how do I do this? Because its doing the same on three Pc's I've tested.

[shubz]

Try it on a PC running Linux, if your DVD player can access the drive then I'm reasonably sure it will work.

Will try this later, thanks.

[shubz]

Ok so I have tried with Ubuntu but nothing I do however see that in disk manager drive is showing as RAW.

[JIMMYtheSKULL]

Not sure if you solved this, but this helped me this weekend on a windows 7 laptop drive. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk plugged the drive into my pc, then scanned it, it found what file system used to be there, then wrote the data back to the drive. All the data was back. , The windows 7 disk was then able to to fix the booting of the drive. Previously it said there was no operating system installed, and in the boot repair it could not find a windows partition. AND ITS FREE..........

[shubz]

Thanks Jimmy its been solved I just had to use a utility to re write the MBR on the drive.