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From: Sam on 13 Sep 2008 22:15
I'm currently using a Western Digital external hard drive which is
1TB. I have been running it for some weeks now and it has been fine up
until now. When I plug the drive in at the moment it is recognized by
windows, but not like it was before: it has lost the WD logo. Most
importantly windows recognizes a certain amount of space is being used
on the drive. However when the drive is opened no folders or files can
be seen and cannot be accessed by the computer. Help please.
From: Rod Speed on 13 Sep 2008 23:34
Sam <esfidary(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently using a Western Digital external hard drive which is
> 1TB. I have been running it for some weeks now and it has been fine up
> until now. When I plug the drive in at the moment it is recognized by
> windows, but not like it was before: it has lost the WD logo. Most
> importantly windows recognizes a certain amount of space is being used
> on the drive. However when the drive is opened no folders or files can
> be seen and cannot be accessed by the computer. Help please.

How was the drive formatted, FAT32 or NTFS ?

If it was formatted NTFS, try a Ubuntu Live CD and see if it can see the files and folders.

You can get a situation where the drive gets corrupted enough so that Win
NTFS doesnt like it, but any Linux distro like Ubuntu is quite happy with it.


From: Arno Wagner on 14 Sep 2008 01:55
Previously Sam <esfidary(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently using a Western Digital external hard drive which is
> 1TB. I have been running it for some weeks now and it has been fine up
> until now. When I plug the drive in at the moment it is recognized by
> windows, but not like it was before: it has lost the WD logo. Most
> importantly windows recognizes a certain amount of space is being used
> on the drive. However when the drive is opened no folders or files can
> be seen and cannot be accessed by the computer. Help please.

The WD logo is just an autostart and an icon. This sounds
like filesystem corruption. Did you unplug the drive without
"save removal"?

Arno
From: Sam on 14 Sep 2008 06:58
On Sep 14, 8:55 am, Arno Wagner <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> Previously Sam <esfid...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm currently using a Western Digital external hard drive which is
> > 1TB. I have been running it for some weeks now and it has been fine up
> > until now. When I plug the drive in at the moment it is recognized by
> > windows, but not like it was before: it has lost the WD logo. Most
> > importantly windows recognizes a certain amount of space is being used
> > on the drive. However when the drive is opened no folders or files can
> > be seen and cannot be accessed by the computer. Help please.
>
> The WD logo is just an autostart and an icon. This sounds
> like filesystem corruption. Did you unplug the drive without
> "save removal"?
>
> Arno

Hi Arno,

I am not sure about the "safe removal". But almost half a million
files are gone (occupy space on the disk but not visible.) You mean
that could be for an unsafe removal?

Sam
From: Rod Speed on 14 Sep 2008 07:02
Not clear if you replied by email by accident or intentionally. I prefer to
keep it in the group so others who are interested can read the followups.

Sam <esfid...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....(a)gmail.com> wrote
>> Sam <esfid...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>>> I'm currently using a Western Digital external hard drive which is
>>> 1TB. I have been running it for some weeks now and it has been fine up
>>> until now. When I plug the drive in at the moment it is recognized by
>>> windows, but not like it was before: it has lost the WD logo. Most
>>> importantly windows recognizes a certain amount of space is being used
>>> on the drive. However when the drive is opened no folders or files can
>>> be seen and cannot be accessed by the computer. Help please.

>> How was the drive formatted, FAT32 or NTFS ?

>> If it was formatted NTFS, try a Ubuntu Live CD and see if it can see the files and folders.

>> You can get a situation where the drive gets corrupted enough so that Win
>> NTFS doesnt like it, but any Linux distro like Ubuntu is quite happy with it.

> The drive is FAT32, and it is less than a month I am using it. How cant be corrupted?

Some drives do develop a problem in that time and the fault can be outside the drive too.


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