Hello
i have a 500GB (465 GB) external hard disk, and i've been using this for years without any issues, and i have used up almost 350GB + space from the disk it self, and roughly about 140GB was remaining free. And i was trying to download and save some photographs from my digital cam, and both devices were plugged into my laptop via USB. And while the downloading was progressing and halfway through it became really slow all of a sudden, and i cancel the download and rebooted the machine few times but it was the same result, and then i tried to download the pics into my default HDD (INTERNAL) and it was downloading pretty fine and fast without any issues.
And i reconnected my external drive and as usual it gave the connection beep sound, and the HDD light is working but it never did read, and nor it was listed under the my computer section????
How ever it shows up under the "disk management" (refer to the attached screen shot) and it says unallocated disk which i don't understand. This external disk had only one partition and had abt 350GB + very important critical data relating to my work, my new born's photos, my wedding photographs and lot of other important files. So i really need to fix this HDD some how. And if someone can guide me and help me out with this, i would be delighted and really appreciate your support.
Thanks
i have a 500GB (465 GB) external hard disk, and i've been using this for years without any issues, and i have used up almost 350GB + space from the disk it self, and roughly about 140GB was remaining free. And i was trying to download and save some photographs from my digital cam, and both devices were plugged into my laptop via USB. And while the downloading was progressing and halfway through it became really slow all of a sudden, and i cancel the download and rebooted the machine few times but it was the same result, and then i tried to download the pics into my default HDD (INTERNAL) and it was downloading pretty fine and fast without any issues.
And i reconnected my external drive and as usual it gave the connection beep sound, and the HDD light is working but it never did read, and nor it was listed under the my computer section????
How ever it shows up under the "disk management" (refer to the attached screen shot) and it says unallocated disk which i don't understand. This external disk had only one partition and had abt 350GB + very important critical data relating to my work, my new born's photos, my wedding photographs and lot of other important files. So i really need to fix this HDD some how. And if someone can guide me and help me out with this, i would be delighted and really appreciate your support.
Thanks