hard drive help!!

[ADY 554D]

i have a external drive thats 250gb and full of family pics that i will not be able to replace and last night it came up with the drive in disk L is not formatted ? format now...
any ideas anyone?
in explorer it shows as still being full only something like 13gb spare but i just can access it?
thanks in advance ady

 

[The Ironist]

have you tried it in another computer?

 

[ADY 554D]

have you tried it in another computer?

no not yet going to try it in a friends this morning..

 

[Ronnie R]

That would be where to start mate,

 

[ADY 554D]

That would be where to start mate,

still no joy just wants to format it

 

[lau2908]

try checking its health in control panel > administrative tools > computer management , then click disk management, look on the right under your external hard drive ,does it say healthy on it or?

 

[The Ironist]

DO NOT FORMAT!

You said it is family pics you can't replace? I suggest downloading a data recovery program. I suggest one called 'Recover My Files', I used it when it happened to me a few months back and got most of my stuff back

 

[ADY 554D]

update....
used a program called easy recovery pro and managed to get everything back the drive has now been replaced with a 1tb seagate i did alot of digging around on the net and i kept finding it was mainly western digital hard drives that went this way so i opened the toshiba case up to find a wd hard drive sat there:dapprove:

 

[Phil_hill]

How often do you back your data up? - your only as good as your last backup!

 

[ADY 554D]

How often do you back your data up? - your only as good as your last backup!

does not matter how often you back up when your back-up drive goes down..looks like i will have to back up my back-ups:dapprove:

 

[Phil_hill]

Grandfarther - farther - son

 

[realnumber 1]

update....
used a program called easy recovery pro and managed to get everything back the drive has now been replaced with a 1tb seagate i did alot of digging around on the net and i kept finding it was mainly western digital hard drives that went this way so i opened the toshiba case up to find a wd hard drive sat there:dapprove:

I was going to suggest easy recovery. It's very good. As for the drive you usually get that error when you unplug it without using the remove hardware in the task bar whilst its still read/writing to the drive.