FireWire2 :
cb3000 :
mykl_74 :
FireWire2 :
...For some reason windows 7 machines very very rarely detect the drive, but windows xp seems to do so and keep it detected.
Often enough this is an easy fix.
Note: No matter what DO NOT format the drive.
Go to Disk Manager, Right click at the long bar, where is stated RAW
Select Option "Change Drive Letter an Path"; Select "Add" function to assign a driver letter
Once you assign a drive letter, you should be able to acces the drive
FireWire2 is correct. I have an external storage device with 7TB of data on it, showing up as RAW. I just assigned it a drive letter, and all the data is again accessible. Thanks FireWire2!
Sorry guys, but when trying to assign a new letter, the option is not available. Its there but not clickable. what to do next then? I have a 500GB USB HDD and in risk of losing a lot valuable data in there. thxs
It shows up in DM, then you should able to assign the drive letter
There much more than what you said...
Does the drive show as offline?
Does the drive show as RAW?
Does the drive show as Unavailable?
A capture image would be good
FireWire2 :
Eric-Ludwig :
My drive is showing up as RAW but already has a drive letter. When I select "add" it only lets me embed it into another drive which doesn't work. When I assign it a new drive letter it still shows up as raw. The computer insists that it needs to be formatted before it can be used and this comes up when I try to give it a new drive letter. My choices are to either format or hit cancel. It does go ahead and change the drive letter but nothing else happens.
Can you give more detail about the issue that you have?
- Move from what OS to what OS?
- What is interface that you use on other system and the system has issue?
... the more detail are better
Hi FireWire 2! I have the same problem: An A-DATA 2TB extern HDD (only USB with no power supply) with so many important data on it. It worked ok under WIN7 x64 but I made a stupid thing: I tried to mount on Android. After that, it kept same drive letter (H
but it is seen as RAW. I tried all described above: changing letter drive (that was visible all the time), re-installing the A-DATA driver ... nothing!
Before finding this thread I used several methods:
- testdisk-7.0-WIP: ... couldn't re-write the table because didn't show the whole folder structure at DIR
- RecoverMyFiles v5, which worked for some files but most didn't work (they are saved BUT don't open)
... below is the report of HDDScan for Win v3:
Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold
001 Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
002 Throughput performance 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
003 Spin Up Time 100 100 0000000000-0712 001
004 Start/Stop Count 100 100 0000000000-0BF7 000
005 Reallocation Sector Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 010
007 Seek Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
008 Seek time Perfomance 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
009 Power-On Hours Count 096 096 0000000000-07A4 000
010 Spin Retry Count 160 100 0000000000-0000 030
012 Device Power Cycle Count 100 100 0000000000-0427 000
191 G-sense Rate/Servo tracking 100 100 0000000000-0008 000
192 Emergency Retract Count 100 100 0000000000-011F 000
193 Load/unload Cycle Count 099 099 0000000000-32C7 000
194 HDA Temperature 100 100 36 C 000
194 HDA Temperature Maximum 100 100 55 C 000
194 HDA Temperature Minimum 100 100 12 C 000
196 Reallocation Event Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
197 Current Pending Errors Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
198 Uncorrectable Errors Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
220 Disk Shift 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
222 Loaded Hours 098 098 0000000000-0424 000
223 Load Retry Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
224 Load Friction 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
226 Load-in Time 100 100 0000000000-010B 000
240 Heads Flying Hours 100 100 0000000000-0000 001
Any idea?