pls someone i need help.. i have a western digital external 320gb 2.5" SATA hdd Which i use as external and i connect it to my pc via usb. I split it into two partitions one as Fat32 and the other as NTFS, which has been running very fine until yesternight when i plugged it in to my pc to use and only the fat32 partition is recognized ( i can access the files on this partition quite ok) while the other NTFS partition (2nd Partition) doesnt even show up at all. if i left it plugged in like that for several minutes the 2nd partition shows up with just an ordinary name: "Local Disk (k" - not bearing the name i gave it, with 100% free space!! which i found very weird cos last time i used the hdd i still have 12gb of free space left out of 150gb that i allocated for the NTFS partition, also when i try to access it, it tells me "drive is not accessible". Ive gone to check the hdd status through disk management feature it lists all the drives on my pc with their respective file systems: fat, ntfs etc. but it lists the unrecognized partition with no file system identified for it and when i check the properties it shows its file system as "RAW". Pls i need help on how i can get my NTFS partition back and running or a way in which i can salvage the files on it cos the thought of losing my files is making me go insane, i just cannot afford to lose all the valuable data & resources on the NTFS partition. pls help, someone! im out of ideas and im goin crazy!. Im using windows XP.
Hi, You can try following the instructions on this web page. They also have a link for the pc inspector recovery software you can download, which is freeware. How to Recover Data From an External Hard Drive | eHow.com
