Hello,
several minutes ago, when I was running computer CHKDSK tool to test a 500GB WD
external hard disk with some important school files, the PC power suddenly went
off. What am I supposed to do now? Can I straightly go on the disk checking
process when the electronic was back? What I can do to protect both of my
external hard disk and inner left information safe? Thank you for any
suggestion here!
Hey, how does this external hard disk response
on your PC after that sudden power loss? Get any drive not formatted error
problem or the likes? If not, you’d better firstly extract all your important
school files out and prepare file backups well on other drives or locations.
And then, go test this WD USB hard disk with CHKDSK tool one more time. But, if
you unluckily get some unfamiliar drive problems, in case of creating worse
troubles, act carefully and follow bellow guidance to see what you can do to
rescue all possible stuffs back.
Step1.
Restart Your Computer When the Power Is Back
In case of farther drive data loss
troubles, when the power is back, merely reboot your computer and also plunge
the same external hard disk to the same computer. And then, do something to fix
your drive according the drive conditions. Never randomly format or overwrite
this WD drive before you take your desired files and other information back. Of
course, the immediate disk checking process is also not proper to be performed
there.
Step2.
Check the present state of your external hard disk
How does this external hard disk work after
connecting this external drive to your PC? Generally, after sudden power loss,
you often can encounter three different states related to your WD USB hard disk.
Firstly,
WD external hard disk is read well on any computer.
When your external hard disk is not damaged
by that instant power loss, it often can be read and viewed as usual. And you
can freely do whatever you want after making drive data backups well.
Secondly,
WD external hard disk gets physical damages.
When your USB hard disk is probably
physically damaged and asks you to format due to some unsupported RAW file
system issues, hard disk errors and more, it often will not be able to be
accessed before any format. And anything new saved or moved to the same storage
device will also be a great threat to your original drive file. Therefore, stop
keeping using this drive to hold new stuffs and leave it alone to avoid any
data loss issue for a while.
Thirdly,
WD external hard disk gets physically damaged.
When your storage device is physically
damaged due to that sudden power loss and cannot be read on any computer or
machine, you often have no promising way to recover original drive data back,
unless you do have stored the drive data backups elsewhere. Therefore, unless
you are willing to pay much money to take chances with some data recovery
companies or experts, you’d better discard that drive and learn to save several
copy of everything to different drives/places from now on.
Does any of these ones familiar with you?
Hope your drive is not completely corrupted and irrecoverable.
Step3.
Write no new data there & go recover inaccessible data with external hard
disk recovery software.
WD external hard disk with many useful
school files are inaccessible due to drive not formatted error, RAW file system
errors or the like drive problems? OK! Fortunately, at least, your drive is not
mechanically damaged. Before your hard disk data is corrupted or replaced by
anything fresh there, go download external
drive not formatted error recovery software to see whether you can rescue
desired files back before any format.
Step4.
Go check this disk again at last.
No matter why you are trying to test this
external drive with CHKDSK, after getting your preferable school files back,
you can freely open this error-checking tool and run it to diagnose your drive
again. If it is still healthy, go on using it to store your crucial data and
also learn a lesson to prepare drive data backups all the time. But, it gets
too many bad sectors or other damages, do not save very valuable data there and
only use it to store or transfer backed-up or non-important data temporarily.
Overall, learn to keep useful data away from this unreliable device in case of
worse data loss troubles.
Related
Sudden PC Power Loss Troubles:
Situation1: Hey, while installing Windows 8 operating system on my computer, I just suddenly turned off my PC and
everything became really bad. There was a message saying that my computer hard
disk needed to be formatted due to RAW file system. Is there anything for me to
fix everything up?
Situation2: Hello, when trying to
upgrade the antivirus updates at home, my computer just turned itself off for
sudden power surge. And then, when pressing the power button to restart this
PC, there was no any response. Nothing was displayed on the PC monitor. Please
help me out. Thanks!
No matter what kind of PC power loss
troubles, as long as your computer drive is still recognizable, you often can
follow the above steps to fix your drive and rescue lost PC data.
Related
Articles
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.