Reconfiguration Needed For Mac My Passport

Question: Oops, I accidentally unplugged my USB hard drive, now I can't access it. I've run into a super-crisis! While creating a bootable Ubuntu USB (for my uni course), the creator needed the USB to be formatted. I had my flash disk as well as my family's external hard drive (used for storing all our digital photos, etc.) both plugged in.

I had my flash disk as well as my family's external hard drive (used for. Incase the hardware changes enough that it Windows needs to reconfigure itself. Given that this informations is absolutely necessary to access a. Apr 6, 2014 - I plugged it into my laptop and it keeps on asking to be format. So if that is not acceptable to you, keep the Passport drive exclusively for using on your. I run Macs and with Tuxera software can read/write all Windows formatted drives. My 40' 2012 model updates regularly, and I have all that is needed.

After accidentally clicking on the wrong drive, I panicked and stupidly pulled the USB cord connecting the external hard drive. Now whenever I plug in the hard drive into any computer, the various OSes want to format the hard drive. Is there any way I can recover the many precious files on the hard drive? --Submitted by Brendan L.

From Sydney, Australia Sounds like the drive has started to be formatted as EXT3 --Submitted by darrenforster99 Partition recovery --Submitted by darrenforster99 STOP!! --Submitted by Zouch Disk recovery tools, take it to a pro or experienced amateur --Submitted by chlpatent Unable to access USB hard drive --Submitted by GEO2003 Thank you to all who contributed! If you have any additional suggestions or advice for Brendan, please click the reply link and submit it. When submitting an answer please be as detailed as possible. There are lots of programs out there designed to recover lost data. Here is a free one: There are also pay versions of different titles. Hopefully you'll be able to restore the data.

Another option might be to get Acronis (www.acronis.com) and make a complete image of the affected hard drive and then from there you might be able to mount that image file as a virtual drive with the Acronis software and recover the files that way. I think there are also programs that can repair the file system of the drive and make it directly readable but I can't think of any titles of hand. Which mac for studio. I realize this is kind of a late entry, but I just fixed my problem. I also used Easeus data recovery. Problem: My 200 GB USB external drive became unreadable/unrecognizable by windows (XP SP 3) explorer.

I used Easeus Partition Master 6.0.1 HE (completely freeware) to reassign a drive letter to the lost partition. When I did this the drive was instantly usable again! But of course it said that the drive us empty. I figured that becuase the process was so quick, little change was actually done to the data on the drive.

Therefore my hopes were high for recovering information. I then used Easeus Data Recovery Wizard (I think I got it from GOTD but there are other compareables out there I'm sure). The scan took several hours, (I used the 'thorough' option) but I was able to retrieve my most important lost (not initially deleted) files and so far my drive is still working. I have found R-Tools to work as advertised. Since your system asks to format the drive, we assume that the drive is physically visible as such. The recovery work can be tedious.