My Buffalo 120 GB External Hard Disk recognised, but not responding!

Hi....

I have a Buffalo 120 GB external Hard Disk that i connect to my HP Compaq Pressario M2000. It has been with me since 2 yrs. It was always fine, except for not being recognised a few months ago....it came back all by itself. So i was fine. I have a lot of data in it which is very important. So please give me any option other than formatting it.

When i rightclick on my My Computer and go to Manage > Disk Management and it shows me my Drive as F: 111.78 GB Healthy (Active).
But it does not display the name that i have given it (Rockin Ram) and when i try opening it, it says " F: is not acessible " The file drive is corrupted and unreadable ".

I have an internet connection with unlimited download, so please let me know if i need to download some software or install anything to repair it. I will do it, but please help me with this issue.
I believe you coz my previous problem was solved by you people !

 

The drive could have failed. Try to plug it into another pc if you have another one.

 

Hi PC Lover, Thanks for the reply.

I have tried that, but it the other PCs doesnt recognise it either.

Wen i plug it, it looks normal with a whhhrrrrrrrr sound running inside and the normal green light glowing on it. The system detects it and says Local Drive. But it doesnt open when i try to open it.

Please tell me a way how to get my Data recovered. Any professional needed ?

I have installed a recovery program suggested by Major Geeks ( Dont remember the name, i uninstalled it :yum ).....it recognised he drive and tried retrieving the data out of it ! it showed me the file names. But said i need to buy that thing to get the data recoveed :cry

Please help in all means possible !

 

Sounds like the drive is messed or the enclose has failed. You could try to remove the drive and plug it into the pc directly.

 

I would agree with PClover. See if you can hook up the drive internally to your machine and run chkdsk on it. It sounds like the master file table has a problem.

 

Yes, if the data is that critical, the next step would be to remove the hard drive from the enclosure and install it into a PC. This way you will know if the enclosure or the hard drive has failed

 

Thanks for the reply Andrew. Can i do this by my own or do i need any supervision rolleyes

Is there any special procedure of installing it ??:confused
I donot have a soung hardware technology !:cry