So I have an older HDD in a USB enclosure that I've used to back up files to whenever I've reformatted my PC.
Today when I went to turn it on, it came up asking if i wanted to format it. I've of course said no, and have sense been trying to access it w/o any luck. When double clicking the drive it comes up saying not accessible, file directory corrupted and unreadable. Disk Management says that the drive is still healthy, but simply reads it as RAW. And when I go into the disk properties and hit error checking it says it can't be performed because windows can't access the disk.
Obviously I know not to do anything that would try and write to the disk, but I'm not sure exactly how to access it again? It's an old PATA drive, so I can't just install it as an internal disk because my motherboard doesn't have PATA on it. There's nothing actually critical on it, so it's not worth paying to get it recovered, but I would obviously like to get access to it again.
Suggestions?
Today when I went to turn it on, it came up asking if i wanted to format it. I've of course said no, and have sense been trying to access it w/o any luck. When double clicking the drive it comes up saying not accessible, file directory corrupted and unreadable. Disk Management says that the drive is still healthy, but simply reads it as RAW. And when I go into the disk properties and hit error checking it says it can't be performed because windows can't access the disk.
Obviously I know not to do anything that would try and write to the disk, but I'm not sure exactly how to access it again? It's an old PATA drive, so I can't just install it as an internal disk because my motherboard doesn't have PATA on it. There's nothing actually critical on it, so it's not worth paying to get it recovered, but I would obviously like to get access to it again.
Suggestions?
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