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External hdd not working after mac using [Solved]

Ghedge - Latest answer on Aug 4, 2012 5:41pm BST

Hello,
My external 500gb hdd was conected to mac. Opening was stoped in middle and Hdd was disconected. Now i cant open my hdd on windows. Its even not showing in My computer.
What to do now?
Maybe try to conect one more time with MAC ?
Or maybe there is some software to let it work again in windows?
i hope somebody will help me.........
Thanks

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kieferschild 470Posts Sunday October 5, 2008Registration date ContributorStatus April 24, 2013Last seen Feb 15, 2012 10:27pm GMT

With it plugged into the windows PC go to start > right click my computer > click manage

choose disk management on the left side.

in there you should see the 500GB drive.

right click it and format it.

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Reed1o - Jul 26, 2012 8:40pm BST

I have the same problem. If I format it the way you suggested, do I lose the data present in my external hdd?

xpcman 7178Posts Wednesday October 8, 2008Registration date ModeratorStatus April 26, 2013Last seen - Jul 26, 2012 10:22pm BST

Yes the data will be lost.

Reed1o - Jul 27, 2012 4:39pm BST

Ok. Is there anyway I can protect my data and also use it with windows?
I can't afford to lose the data.

kieferschild 470Posts Sunday October 5, 2008Registration date ContributorStatus April 24, 2013Last seen - Jul 30, 2012 9:44am BST

You could try putting it back into the Mac to see if you could open it?

alternatively in windows you could try running the following command through comand prompt:

convert <driveletter>: /FS:NTFS

Reed1o - Aug 4, 2012 5:41pm BST

I connected it into the Mac and saved my files and than formatted it. Its working properly now.

I had also tried the command before formatting but it said that the format was already ntfs.

Thank you for the help.

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