Problem with ADATA External HDD

[phoenixsb5]

hey guys. hope you're doing fine.
i had a very bad problem. and i wanted to you help me with that.
i've got an ADATA Classic CH94 external HDD. and i've got a whole lot of stuff in it, so please don't suggest that i should format it.
the problem is that when i plug in my HDD it says that i should format it. and there are just two options (1: Format, 2: Cancel).
so please help me with this problem. how can i enter my HDD without formatting it?
thank you all.

 

[inzone]

Is this drive something that you have been using all along? Did something happen to cause it to respond like that or was it just one day you went to use it and you got the message? With the drive pluged in have you gone into disk management to see if the drive shows up there and what the status is? With the message that you got it sounds like for some reason there is no longer a partition on the drive and all hdd's need to be partitioned in order to write data to it. You can try this free software to see if you can recover any data from your drive and untill you try all options don't format or overwrite any data tom the drive.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

[phoenixsb5]

well, yea sth happened to it actually.
my friend had borrowed it, and when he returned it, he said it plug it off while the files where being copied.

 

[inzone]

well, yea sth happened to it actually.
my friend had borrowed it, and when he returned it, he said it plug it off while the files where being copied.[/quotemsg


What is "sth" ? Also what do you mean by "he said it plug it off while the files where being copied" ? Can you translate for me?

 

[inzone]

It sounds to me like your friend messed up your drive because it was working when you let him borrow it and when it was returned it now doesn't work.

 

[cubeboy]

hey guys. hope you're doing fine.
i had a very bad problem. and i wanted to you help me with that.
i've got an ADATA Classic CH94 external HDD. and i've got a whole lot of stuff in it, so please don't suggest that i should format it.
the problem is that when i plug in my HDD it says that i should format it. and there are just two options (1: Format, 2: Cancel).
so please help me with this problem. how can i enter my HDD without formatting it?
thank you all.

See you had the same problem as me. Did you manage to fix it as I've lots of data I now can't access.
Yjanks

 

[arianvc]

I have the same problem , ADATA CH94 classic , not working , and lots of important stuff saved in it , borrowed to friends , they ruined it and gave it back !
with testdisk I can access deleted files and copy them but i can't get main files, is there a way to access regular files?
windows takes a while to recognize it , does not get the size and other properties , after opening it hangs and then says "The parameter is incorrect" or "the disk is not formatted yet , do you want to format it?"
linux says "can't read superblock"
i think the partition table is ruined or something like that.
how can i fix it and get my data back?

 

[nayhtwe]

My computer is not reading external harddisk 2TB and unknown.

 

[nayhtwe]

my harddisk is sansung external storage drive.model is NM-2118.My computer is not read and unknown.

 

[Jaap van oosten]

hey guys. hope you're doing fine.
i had a very bad problem. and i wanted to you help me with that.
i've got an ADATA Classic CH94 external HDD. and i've got a whole lot of stuff in it, so please don't suggest that i should format it.
the problem is that when i plug in my HDD it says that i should format it. and there are just two options (1: Format, 2: Cancel).
so please help me with this problem. how can i enter my HDD without formatting it?
thank you all.

if your drive still shows a drive name in explorer f.i. E:
I once could repair the CH94 using dosbox chkdsk /f e:
1 year ago since then all was fine no data lost



until recent again a problem
this time worse explorer was trying to access the drive it took very long
then I/O error message came
and this time I failed to repair

 

[dr fran]

I have 2 HD710's
I bought the second because I thought the first was a lemon. My problem is that that the usb cords do not stay tight. thus, the connection is intermittent, sometimes does not work at all and sometimes tells me to format. I ignore the format error message. I hate to say this, but I am moving all my data to another external hard drive because the time it takes for the ADATA to work properly, (if I sit and hold all the connections tightly and reppeatedly attempt, eventually it connects) is ultimately a waste. THere are so many other products that can do this job with out the hassles. Sorry.
.

 

[Chekmte]

Dude, there is a way to read a HD when all else fails. This method will work only if ur HD's detectable. Try the "cmd" way and if that doesnt work, then run a free OS like Linux or Ubuntu from a flash dsk and try the disk help solutions on it. Personally i'd recommend Ubuntu cuz its worked for me.

 

[Attilio_49]

My computer is not reading external harddisk 2TB and unknown.

I had the same trouble with an external HDD ADATA "classic CH94".
After a lot of stressful attemps I solved the problem... simply changing the USB cable!