Harddrive Problem

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Hi All

Been using my Seagate 250GB HDD for more than 2yrs on my mediaplayer now this weird problem occured:
When I connect to my PC to transfer files ect it takes a very long time to pickup the HDD, next when I try to open/explore the HDD I get this error: Drive F not formatted do you want to format it now
I don't want to format HDD any other option to backup my files?
I can still play movies on my TV with this HDD

Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks
 
soundbox said:
Hi All

Been using my Seagate 250GB HDD for more than 2yrs on my mediaplayer now this weird problem occured:
When I connect to my PC to transfer files ect it takes a very long time to pickup the HDD, next when I try to open/explore the HDD I get this error: Drive F not formatted do you want to format it now
I don't want to format HDD any other option to backup my files?
I can still play movies on my TV with this HDD

Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Thanks for all the details wrt to model, serial number, firmware version etc. Maybe you should just burn some frogs and it will come right under a wizards spell or something stupid like that?
 
Do a few Chkdsks /f

Download a program called "Seagate Tools" and burn it to a cd, then boot from said cd and run it.

Alternatively download GetDataBack for NTFS and recover the data from your drive and then format it.
 
@Kuga....thanks for the info I gave Seagate Tools a shot no luck. Will d/l GetDataBack later.
 
Could be the USB-to-SATA/IDE convertor packing up. Is the drive sealed, or could you open it and connect it direct?
 
I would not run any data recovery utilities on a failing drive. Your first priority is to image it and then work on the image. Leave the drive in the drawer as you can potentially just make things worse just by having it connect to windows itself, never mind trying to read it.

Use something like dd_rescue, ddrescue, Media Tools or CopyR to image it. dd_rescue & Media Tools will allows you to do an image in reverse which is the preferred method. Eliminates the drives read ahead cache (which complicates things with bad sectors etc)

First thing to do though is diagnose the problem correctly.
 
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