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Mark
Lv 6

External Hard Drive cannot be readable.?

It asks to format it. When we try to format it, we get the message Format is not possible. Is there any way we can have access to this drive. It is no problem if we have to lose all the data in it.

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  • 9 years ago
    Favourite answer

    your hard disk is spoilt

    if its under warranty get it replaced

    i had wd and seagate...

    wd had this prob after falling down(its not necessary that there has to be physical damage for disk to get spoilt)

    was under warranty so they gave me a new 1

    the same error occurred for my transcend pendrive...tried lots of stuff then gave up

    Source(s): My experience
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    you favor to move all of your files out of your computer to three different media. First you fix your computer hdd for your computer and get it to artwork perfect. basically connect a exterior cd-author to the computer or usb complicated stress or in the adventure that your complicated stress case helps to connect a inner author connect any between the gadget to computer and easily write each and every of the pictures. that is the most secure way without disturb any situation.

  • 9 years ago

    are you using OSX or windows?

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