Hi guys… MY LAST HOPE 
I was wondering if you could assist me in an emergency with my external usb hard drive???
I will try and be very brief, yet as precise as possible with my little challenge. Needless to say I m not the most computer savvy of people
I have an external USB hard drive: SAMSUNG HM160HC USB Device… full of my photos that are very very dear to me and that I fear lost forever.
I took the hard drive to work and plugged it into my computer and it didn’t come up automatically as an external drive as it usually did (i.e. on my computer)
I think the computer didn’t assign a drive name to it and it came up under the same drive name, i.e. F: as one of the network drives here in office.
The following steps I m not 100% sure, but I did something in the line of:
In CONTROL PANEL – AMINISTRATIVE TOOLS – COMPUTER MANAGEMENT – STORAGE – DISK MANAGEMENT I right-clicked on the F: which, selected the Samsung drive and “change drive letter” and I changed it to T:
… but it didn’t come up in the refreshed “MY COMPUTER” list of all the drives and usb devices
and I have no idea why it isn’t working at all anymore.
My computer doesn’t even recognise the hardware and windows (XP) pops up a message “device malfunctioned and Windows doesn’t recognise it”…
I plugged it into another computer (my colleague’s) where it previously worked, and it comes up under I: BUT when I click on it “I:\ is not accessible – the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable”.
VIA “Properties” of I: on the “general” tab:
Type: local disc
File system: RAW
Used space 0
Free space 0
Capacity 0
And via the “hardware” tab and select samsung hm160hc “properties”:
“general” tab: device is working properly, and in “driver” tab it shows two drivers (in windows/system32…)
VIA Disk Management the I: “File System” is empty (wheras the other drives show NTFS) and it also shows “100% free” with capacity/free space equal 149GB.
When I try to savely remove the device it says “cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it”.
Does this mean the drive is completely wiped out and empty? If there is no “file system” does that mean the device cannot be operated?
I have absolutely no idea what to do other than to cross my fingers some of you might be able to point me in the right direction.
Even if it shows 100% free, do my photos still exist on the drive or are they gone forever? Is there any way to recover anything?
MILLION THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!xxx
I was wondering if you could assist me in an emergency with my external usb hard drive???I will try and be very brief, yet as precise as possible with my little challenge. Needless to say I m not the most computer savvy of people
I have an external USB hard drive: SAMSUNG HM160HC USB Device… full of my photos that are very very dear to me and that I fear lost forever.
I took the hard drive to work and plugged it into my computer and it didn’t come up automatically as an external drive as it usually did (i.e. on my computer)
I think the computer didn’t assign a drive name to it and it came up under the same drive name, i.e. F: as one of the network drives here in office.
The following steps I m not 100% sure, but I did something in the line of:
In CONTROL PANEL – AMINISTRATIVE TOOLS – COMPUTER MANAGEMENT – STORAGE – DISK MANAGEMENT I right-clicked on the F: which, selected the Samsung drive and “change drive letter” and I changed it to T:
… but it didn’t come up in the refreshed “MY COMPUTER” list of all the drives and usb devices
and I have no idea why it isn’t working at all anymore.My computer doesn’t even recognise the hardware and windows (XP) pops up a message “device malfunctioned and Windows doesn’t recognise it”…
I plugged it into another computer (my colleague’s) where it previously worked, and it comes up under I: BUT when I click on it “I:\ is not accessible – the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable”.
VIA “Properties” of I: on the “general” tab:
Type: local disc
File system: RAW
Used space 0
Free space 0
Capacity 0
And via the “hardware” tab and select samsung hm160hc “properties”:
“general” tab: device is working properly, and in “driver” tab it shows two drivers (in windows/system32…)
VIA Disk Management the I: “File System” is empty (wheras the other drives show NTFS) and it also shows “100% free” with capacity/free space equal 149GB.
When I try to savely remove the device it says “cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it”.
Does this mean the drive is completely wiped out and empty? If there is no “file system” does that mean the device cannot be operated?
I have absolutely no idea what to do other than to cross my fingers some of you might be able to point me in the right direction.
Even if it shows 100% free, do my photos still exist on the drive or are they gone forever? Is there any way to recover anything?
MILLION THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!xxx
