External HD !! HELP ~

rex028 · April 6th, 2005, 02:09 AM

i have a external HD ...
i used it on two Computer : PC A , PC B

it was running fine on PC A ...

After running on PC B for few days .. i took it back to PC A ..

it asks me to format the Hard Drive !!

and i click into the property of it .. it shown Memory Full !!

i'm confused !!!!

Please help me !!!!

RamonGTP · April 6th, 2005, 02:46 AM

Does it work fine if you take it back to PC B?

Also, are you using firewire or USB2.0? I've used enclosures that have both and would give me that same message when I hooked it up using firewire, switched over to USB and it worked fine.

rex028 · April 6th, 2005, 07:18 AM

it used USB

it is iomega 80GB HDD

i couldn't take it back to PC B ... becoz PC B is far away from me now !!

when i Click into the property of it .. the it shows File Format : RAW

and all used space is 0 ... !!

what can i do now ???

Detritus · April 6th, 2005, 07:41 AM

Try hooking it up internally as a slave to the C drive and see what you get.

rex028 · April 6th, 2005, 08:19 AM

it support only USB ~ i can't do it internally !!

Detritus · April 6th, 2005, 08:28 AM

Sorry, I was envisioning mine. I have just a chassis with a harddrive inside it...

rex028 · April 6th, 2005, 09:45 AM

nevermind

any ideas guys !!

am i have to format it ????

RamonGTP · April 6th, 2005, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rex028

it support only USB ~ i can't do it internally !!

You should be able to take the case apart and hook up the hard drive internally as suggested. I've yet to come accross a USB drive that wasn't a standart IDE drive.

rex028 · April 6th, 2005, 01:01 PM

but it doesn't have an IDE port ... !

Bovon · April 6th, 2005, 03:52 PM

There are two basic types of external hard drives. (besides firewire/USB) one type has the USB assembly placed inside a USB enclosure...and sealed. The drive itself may be IDE but you cannot get to it without opening up the case..which voids the warranty, and the drive may not be IDE anyway.

The other type (like a lot of us use today) is an external USB case and an IDE hard drive to go in the case. This type can be removed from the case and used internally in a computer and run from the mainboards IDE controllers.

Are you certain yours is the sealed...made for external hard drive....setup?

Something may have happened between the time it was removed from PC B and its return to PC A...like maybe a drop or bump..anything that could have moved the delicate heads inside the drive... a format is not "all over"..it is a micro thin spiral...and the heads must be 100% calibrated to "see" this spiral..if not, the heads will see an unformatted area of the disk. This happens many time with floppy drives..but that mechanical assembly is nowhere near as good of a design or calibration that goes into a hard drive.