Hello, I'm not particularly good at computers (can build them fine, but 'other' components I understand less well). I bought a 2tb USB 3.0 hard drive, it worked fine for ages. I formatted my computer to reinstall windows, general clean up, and when I plugged it in it said "needs formatting" despite there being data on it. I did the usual plugging it in various places, to no avail, and am now trying a program called EaseUS data recovery wizard, which is currently scanning the whole thing (another 24 hours to go) so I can look at and recover files... Why is it not possible to make the hard drive work again as is if it can be scanned and have files retrieved? If I were to format it to get it working with my PC - would it be stable, or does the fact that it's had this error mean I need to demand a replacement under warranty? Thanks
Did you try connecting the hard drive with another computer? It could be possible that the data got corrupted due to removing it while there was data still being written on it. You should check this link out http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2012/02/10/basic-hard-drive-problem-you-need-to-format-the-disk/
Right, having looked at that awesome tutorial and using WinHex, the problem is that the hard drive is formatted as Apple HFS (Partition type hex 4f) - I can't work out how to proceed :/ I'm sure the drive was NTFS originally, but the first thing I did with it is plug it into my mates Mac... not sure why it worked without problem from then on til now :/ Any ideas? Thanks for the help thus far
Actually fuck it, I shall use the program to restore what I haven't got on my computer and then format the drive as NTFS and keep it away from the dirty and impure spawn of Apple.
