My Book Essential 2TB

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I recently bought a 2TB My Book Essential USB 3.0. About 2 weeks ago i unplugged the My Book to move it and when i plugged it back in it showed up as a Local Drive G: and then it says if i want to format it. I do not want to format it until i try other solutions. I am currently using it on Windows 7. Also It was first used on my desktop with vista but i no longer use the desktop so i just use it with my laptop now.

Also under disk management it says RAW instead of NTFS.

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It sounds like the partition data is corrupt. You can try TestDisk  http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk or Partition Find and Mount  http://findandmount.com/ . As a last ditch you can try the Windows command to change format from FAT32 to NTFS that sometimes fixes it too. Here is a link for that http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214579 I’ve seen that fix posted by some smart people.

Joe

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Thanks for the help.  I tried the FindandMount option and it could not find any partitions at all even with the comprehensive scan. I also tried TeskDisk but could not get that to work either. I will try TeskDisk again maybe i did’nt do it right but is there anything else?

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You can try a Linux Live CD and see if you can get data off or data recovery software like Recuva. There are a lot  of them some are free others try and buy. Then there is the command I mentioned it’s in the middle of the page on MS link.

Joe