I'm a long time reader, but first time poster. Here's my problem:
Both my and my girlfriend's old laptops recently died so we bought a new desktop. I purchased an external hard drive case to connect the hard drives via USB. I was able to save all of my girlfriend's files without any issues. Mine however is not going so smoothly.
I searched the forums and found 2 relevant posts (i'll link to them at the bottom) that I believe have put me on the right path, but I need some help going from there. Through disk management I've discovered that the problem drive, I:, is in the RAW format. I have windows 7 64bit. I was able to get into bootrec.exe but wasn't sure what to go from there. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that I want to use the /FixMbr option, but I'm not sure how exactly to do that. Obviously I would rather fix this without having to purchase any software.
I just need a little guidance about what next.
Thanks!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257868-32-external-hard-drive-inaccessible
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/278914-32-recover-drive-format
Both my and my girlfriend's old laptops recently died so we bought a new desktop. I purchased an external hard drive case to connect the hard drives via USB. I was able to save all of my girlfriend's files without any issues. Mine however is not going so smoothly.
I searched the forums and found 2 relevant posts (i'll link to them at the bottom) that I believe have put me on the right path, but I need some help going from there. Through disk management I've discovered that the problem drive, I:, is in the RAW format. I have windows 7 64bit. I was able to get into bootrec.exe but wasn't sure what to go from there. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that I want to use the /FixMbr option, but I'm not sure how exactly to do that. Obviously I would rather fix this without having to purchase any software.
I just need a little guidance about what next.
Thanks!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257868-32-external-hard-drive-inaccessible
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/278914-32-recover-drive-format