Hard Drive not reading properly

[joecool6101]

Hello,

I purchased an external hard drive a while back and suddenly it is reading as a USB device instead of the hard drive that it is. Vista can see it but it doesnt actually read it properly.. it wasnt me to change it t some type of file which i am worried it will format it.

Thanks for your help.

~Joecool6101

[LiNuX]

external hard drive IS a usb device and it SHOULD show up right next to your other hard drives

and what does it want you to change it to? I have a few external hard drives and they work fine with both xp and vista

and what model is the hdd? i may be able to look something up with that

[joecool6101]

external hard drive IS a usb device and it SHOULD show up right next to your other hard drives

and what does it want you to change it to? I have a few external hard drives and they work fine with both xp and vista

and what model is the hdd? i may be able to look something up with that

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.. I had it working using linux while at a friends house.. but when i came home and tried it says now it cant mount is that it is an unknown device. I cant remember where i went to get the menu to what it wanted to me to change it to. But this is the error linux is giving me now "mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified" (knoppix 4.0)

If you could help it would be VERYYYYYYYYYYYY MUCH appreciated.

Thanks,

~Joecool6101

[LiNuX]

my guess is the hdd is corrupted somewhere, it is probably not letting your systems read it - maybe if you can go to add hardware and see if it can detect it, and if it can't read it, there is no way to really format it and start from the beginning

i've never heard of this problem with an EXTERNAL hard drive before so its new for me too

[joecool6101]

Hmm.. i got it rigged up again using linux. Linux is referring to it as "volume dirty" which i guess means corrupt or something..

bad thing i lost 40gb of data and i cant move the hard drive to the computer i need it on and i cant turn off the computer it is on.. w00t

I am going to call up the company that sold it to me and see if i can get a refund on this or something.


Also.. why do i have negative GPF ?

[LiNuX]

Hmm.. i got it rigged up again using linux. Linux is referring to it as "volume dirty" which i guess means corrupt or something..

bad thing i lost 40gb of data and i cant move the hard drive to the computer i need it on and i cant turn off the computer it is on.. w00t

I am going to call up the company that sold it to me and see if i can get a refund on this or something.


Also.. why do i have negative GPF ?

lol volume dirty - make me laugh

but yeah thats what linux (the OS) means when it says that

good luck on the refund

and about the Negative GFP - we had a bit of trouble a few months back where it took away 15 GFP for everyday you didn't log in to the forum lol, it took me a week to fix it and i only awarded people what they lost and gave them a bit more if they posted, otherwise i left it alone

[ksangeelee]

You can try using 'df' to find out what device it's mouted as, and then try to fsck it to fix any errors. It may just be that it was unplugged while still mounted. A problem my friend had was that he formatted his drive under windows xp, so it was NTFS and then he couldn't read it on Linux (however most Linux distros now have NTFS compiled in as default)