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dinster, This use to work for windows 98 which I tried last week, though I can't find this option in XP: Connect up and power on your external hard drive Right click on my computer -> click properties Go to the Hardware tab and click the 'Device Manager' button Expand the 'Disk drives' menu...

wahnula, Yes, I agree. I think it's also helpful for other readers to know what worked for the user. Well I'm turning off my e-mail notification for this thread. Thanks for the help and tips!

One other question.... How do I mark this thread as solved? Thank you

I ended up using the graphical chkdsk option through the properties -> tools tab and enabled "Automatically fix file system errors" which I believe is the same as running chkdsk /f at the command prompt and it worked perfectly! Surprisingly finished in what seemed like not more than 10 seconds...

Thank you both for your quick replies. I will try running chkdsk later today after work and report back with the result. I will also try that free program mentioned in that 'External USB Hard Drive not recognized by Windows' thread if chkdsk does not work. Thank you

Hi, I tried searching the forums a bit before I signed up and posted this, but was unable to find what I was looking for. I have an external NTFS formatted 500GB hard drive which I've loaded up to about half capacity so far. The problem I came across is that when I try to open a specific...