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Joined: Mon Dec 21 2009, 10:17AM
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Hi all, I have a 500gb Maxtor external hard drive and upon trying to open it, it displayed the message "F:\ is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable". Now I assumed at first that this could be physical problem (it may well be as I have had it for two years) but just an hour ago I was able to access it for a short period, alas I had no where to back it up as my computer drive is full and I had nothing else spare. There is around 340gb worth of files on there so If it is salvageable that would be my preference. Can anybody shed some insight into this?
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It can be anything, it can be the PSU, it can be the drive itself, it can be the controller. What I normally do is to move it to another cabinet or into a PC to remove two of the possibilities.
Have a listen if it is making noises, if it have problems with tracking or bad secors it is often possible to hear it working while it tries to recalibrate itself. I have had one drive chugging away for 3 days before it suddenly was ok again. If a drive has caused problem once it is best to retire it because it is not worth the risk of having years problems.
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Joined: Mon Dec 21 2009, 10:17AM
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Hey it righted itself, and I have since transferred all files to a spare drive. Once I restarted the computer it ran a disk check for my drive, went through about an hour of "Recovering orphaned file ***** to directory file *****" I also backed it up. So I should be fine now. Thanks
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