firebirdta84
Technical User
I built an external hard drive using a Seagate Barracuda 300GB drive in an enclosure about 1 year ago. The other day, I turned it on but the drive wouldn't show in Windows Explorer. The computer just froze and it stayed that way until I turned the drive off. When I turn it off, it says the drive needs formatted. The drive shows up as working fine in Device Manager (and the drivers are up to date) but doesn't show in Disk Management (just causes it to freeze on that screen, too). I'm running Windows Vista and it never had a problem before. I've tried hooking it up to an XP machine with no luck either. I've also tried to hook it up as a second internal drive on the XP machine. When I do this, it shows as a drive in Windows Explorer but when I click on it, it says it needs formatted and shows 0 capacity/0 bytes used. Can anyone recommend a course of action for me? I'd like to try everything I can to get it to work before shipping it off to someone as it contains a lot of personal information. Perhaps a good software utility?
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe