Krelian
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Hey guys, I'm having a problem with my hard drive. I have a 250 GB Maxtor hard drive that I use for backing up files. One day it just ceased to let me into the drive itself, and pops up with a dialogue asking if I want to format it. The hard drive is reported in my BIOS to be there but I just can't access it. Is it possible all the data on it somehow got corrupted or is my disk damaged? I haven't tried formatting yet because a lot of really important stuff is on the drive itself. At first it was doing it to random folders on the drive, asking me to format (the folder I guess, it was really odd) whenever I clicked to open. Eventually the whole drive became inaccessible.
I've tried formatting and going into my desktop and taking the hard drive out and cleaning it of dust and reattaching it without any success. I always have up to date antivirus software so I don't think it was a virus, especially since I don't come into contact with many places you normally get them. If anyone can help me with my situation I'd much appreciate some advice or helpful information. My rig is in my sig if you need that. Thanks.
I've tried formatting and going into my desktop and taking the hard drive out and cleaning it of dust and reattaching it without any success. I always have up to date antivirus software so I don't think it was a virus, especially since I don't come into contact with many places you normally get them. If anyone can help me with my situation I'd much appreciate some advice or helpful information. My rig is in my sig if you need that. Thanks.