Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 13:50:43 » |
|
I have a Buffalo 1TB portable hard drive (HD-PNTU3). I have it plugged into the Xbox 360 as a media host for films and TV. It works fine, however when I plug it into my laptop it doesn't appear with a drive letter so I cannot access it to add/delete files accordingly. The PC recognises it, as it's found in Disk Management and Device Manager. I've done a fair bit of Googling to try and resolve it. I've tried uninstalling all USB drivers, updating the external hard drive driver, tried it in all USB ports on my laptop, but it still doesn't show up. In Disk Management it doesn't let me change/add a drive letter or path either. So, i'm stuck. Any suggestions? I will take it over my Dads to see if it works on his later today. Thanks in advance
|
|
« Last Edit: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 13:53:24 by Ginginho »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Samdy Gray
Dirty sneaky traitor weasel
Offline
Posts: 27137
|
|
« Reply #1 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 14:27:24 » |
|
Is the external HDD Disk 1?
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #2 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 14:51:23 » |
|
Yeah.
I've read there's sometimes partitioning issues, which, to be honest, is not something I would know how to fix.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Samdy Gray
Dirty sneaky traitor weasel
Offline
Posts: 27137
|
|
« Reply #3 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 16:09:41 » |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #4 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 17:02:21 » |
|
Cheers Sam, although the HDD doesn't show up when I use the list volume function....
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Samdy Gray
Dirty sneaky traitor weasel
Offline
Posts: 27137
|
|
« Reply #5 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 17:20:27 » |
|
What do you get if you do 'list disk' instead?
Btw, the screenshot suggests you did a bit of playing around with Volume 3. That's your EFI partition which you really don't want to go fucking with. Just a word of caution!
|
|
« Last Edit: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 17:22:34 by Samdy Gray »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #6 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 17:28:36 » |
|
Ah, I wrongly assumed that was my External HDD and assigned a letter to it, then removed it.
List disk:
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Samdy Gray
Dirty sneaky traitor weasel
Offline
Posts: 27137
|
|
« Reply #7 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 17:45:55 » |
|
Weird. The disk is present, but the partition isn't listed as a volume.
Try 'select disk 1'. Then 'list partition'. You're looking for the one that's 259GB in size. Then 'select partition x' where x is the number of the partition, you can then try and mount it by doing 'assign letter' again.
If that doesn't work, it's probably still recoverable but it'd take a bit of tinkering.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #8 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 18:30:36 » |
|
That didn't work unfortunately, it doesn't let you assign a drive letter from the "list disk" route.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #9 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 18:50:49 » |
|
Appreciate all your help so far, Samdy.
I installed Ext2 Volume Manager, which found the drive and allowed me to assign a letter.
However, it's now telling me I need to format the drive before I can access it. This would obviously wipe off everything on it, which I clearly don't want to do.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #10 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 19:26:57 » |
|
Fuck it, i've formatted it to NTFS and now running Recuva and hoping for the best.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Samdy Gray
Dirty sneaky traitor weasel
Offline
Posts: 27137
|
|
« Reply #11 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 20:32:47 » |
|
Noooooo.
You could've easily booted a Linux LiveCD and retrieved the data before formatting. Never mind.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ginginho
Offline
Posts: 6860
|
|
« Reply #12 on: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 20:53:44 » |
|
Just tried it, my data is still there. Will have another look tomorrow to see if I can get it sorted.
Cheers Sam
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|