External drive not working, please help

T

theroadrunner

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Hi,

I've got a removable hard drive I loaded at of my stuff onto. And after plugging it into my TV via the usb connection to watch a film from it (which worked briefly) Then after plugging it into my computer and I seem to remember at first I could open it, but I think it ran slowly/screwed up.

...And now it either isn't recognized or shows up, when I left it trying to open the drive (I double clicked H drive) It took like 10 minutes and then gave the following error:



H is not accesible

The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

It's the H drive as shown in the pic, any ideas I can try to get it to work would be greatly appreciated. But I need the files on the drive, so blanking it is off the menu.

Thanks,
Tom
 
Perhaps, if you haven't already, try another computer with the drive... what are the specifics of the drive? External USB hard drive, correct?
 
best case scenario would be either the the problem resides in the usb cable or the controller card of the external drive.

if plugging the drive in another computer and or other usb ports results in the same problem i'd suggest using another usb cable. and if that too fails then remove the external casing and slave the drive in the computer.
 
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