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Hard disk corrupted and unreadable

Comment:

my samsung 320 gb is currently corrupted and unreadable everytime i try to open it. this only happens on my laptop though. if i put it in my friends laptop. it can be used. can someone please help me?

Name: aegis1
Date: October 10, 2009 at 21:21:22 Pacific

Reply:

My guess would be a connection problem in your laptop. Possibly a bent pin, if it's an IDE drive.

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Reply:

erm. okay. so what do i have to do now? its an external hard disk by the way.

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Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: October 11, 2009 at 22:28:16 Pacific

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If it works OK on another computer then the problem is not with the drive. It's with the OS or USB connection on your computer. You might want to do some 'disk management' stuff with it.

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