External Hard Drive problem

roy_rajat · 12-05-2007, 01:22 PM

I had recently bought a WD 500GB MY Book premium firewire/USB external hard drive from Amazon. Everything was working just fine until tomorrow when suddenly I got a alert message saying one of my partition on the hard drive was not being recognised and data seemed to have lost. I tried to stop the hard drive using the external device icon but the drive didn't seem to be recognized at all by the PC and when I tried to restart the computer it crashed until I removed the hard drive physically form the usb port....then once the computer has started if I try to reconnect the drive I get an alert saying USB device not recognizes...USB device has malfunctioned please replace the device. The same thing happens if I connect via Firewire. I have checked my USB ports and firewire ports are working fine with other devices.
Has anyone got any remedy for the situation? Or do I need a replacement?

MY PC specs:
2.4GHz celeron, 2,5GB RAM
WIndows XP Pro, SP2

thanks
RR

tooch926 · 12-06-2007, 02:29 AM

It worked before, and now it doesn't? Is there more than one device that might be asking for the same drive letter?

roy_rajat · 12-10-2007, 10:38 AM

No hat is not the case. essentially the drive went out just after it displayed the message that I://$Mft not found, I was one of the partition of my external hard drive.

12-05-2007, 01:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
roy_rajat Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 43	External Hard Drive problem I had recently bought a WD 500GB MY Book premium firewire/USB external hard drive from Amazon. Everything was working just fine until tomorrow when suddenly I got a alert message saying one of my partition on the hard drive was not being recognised and data seemed to have lost. I tried to stop the hard drive using the external device icon but the drive didn't seem to be recognized at all by the PC and when I tried to restart the computer it crashed until I removed the hard drive physically form the usb port....then once the computer has started if I try to reconnect the drive I get an alert saying USB device not recognizes...USB device has malfunctioned please replace the device. The same thing happens if I connect via Firewire. I have checked my USB ports and firewire ports are working fine with other devices. Has anyone got any remedy for the situation? Or do I need a replacement? MY PC specs: 2.4GHz celeron, 2,5GB RAM WIndows XP Pro, SP2 thanks RR

12-06-2007, 02:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
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12-10-2007, 10:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
roy_rajat Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 43	No hat is not the case. essentially the drive went out just after it displayed the message that I://$Mft not found, I was one of the partition of my external hard drive.