I bought a 2tb Samsung External Hard Drive about 2 years ago, ripped all my DVDs to it and hooked it up to my Smart TV so I could just watch my films without having to change disks etc.
The other night I accidentally hit the record button on my remote whilst watching TV and I think this may have changed the hard drives file allocation system because my TV will no longer recognise it as anything other than a recording device and my desktop doesn't even show the drive letter in "My computer". I ran the disk managment tool in windows and the data is still there, I just can't seem to access it.
I also ran a program called TestDrive and performed an analysis on it. It says that the allocation system is for a Linux system, but I know for a fact that when I first bought the hard drive I formatted it as NTFS or FAT32.
Any ideas? I really don't want to reformat and have to rip all my films again. I just need windows to recognise the disk...
The other night I accidentally hit the record button on my remote whilst watching TV and I think this may have changed the hard drives file allocation system because my TV will no longer recognise it as anything other than a recording device and my desktop doesn't even show the drive letter in "My computer". I ran the disk managment tool in windows and the data is still there, I just can't seem to access it.
I also ran a program called TestDrive and performed an analysis on it. It says that the allocation system is for a Linux system, but I know for a fact that when I first bought the hard drive I formatted it as NTFS or FAT32.
Any ideas? I really don't want to reformat and have to rip all my films again. I just need windows to recognise the disk...