|
|
Post by freezn on Dec 6, 2020 1:48:07 GMT -5
I consider myself pretty computer illiterate and all of the people I used to go to for computer problems are not accessible to me anymore for various reasons. Sooo I'm going out on a limb to see if there's any computer wiz kids out here who'll stop me from making a really dumb and expensive purchase.
As I said in the title I'm a big dumb dumb and instead of saving things on the cloud, I've just been throwing it on my external hard drive. This includes school papers, D&D campaign notes, and logs for NwN. Well, I'm also not in a situation yet where I can have a desktop so I've been tying this thing to my laptop and it gets moved, jostled, all the things that comes with not being in a static area that also contains dogs, child and significant other. Thus I'm not surprised when it stopped letting me access some of my files saved on the external drive. Disappointed. But not surprised.
After a quick google run my best guess as to what's wrong is that it has a RAW drive system? Like I said, I'm pretty illiterate about this stuff so I could be severely wrong. That's why I'm shooting in the dark and asking here before I make decisions. The internet says there's programs I can purchase to recover my files and not lose them but I don't want to buy something that doesn't really work or is more expensive than I need. So if you all think one of these programs could help me out, would you mind posting your recommendations?
For those that care, the actual error I get whenever I try to open up one of the effected files/folders is... "F:\yadayada\yadada is not accessible. The device is not ready."
|
|
|
|
Post by uriziel on Dec 6, 2020 2:11:12 GMT -5
I'm no super person, but I'd suggest trying to swap cables first. I've bent many cables in laptop bags.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fluffy the Mad on Dec 6, 2020 2:21:00 GMT -5
I consider myself pretty computer illiterate and all of the people I used to go to for computer problems are not accessible to me anymore for various reasons. Sooo I'm going out on a limb to see if there's any computer wiz kids out here who'll stop me from making a really dumb and expensive purchase. As I said in the title I'm a big dumb dumb and instead of saving things on the cloud, I've just been throwing it on my external hard drive. This includes school papers, D&D campaign notes, and logs for NwN. Well, I'm also not in a situation yet where I can have a desktop so I've been tying this thing to my laptop and it gets moved, jostled, all the things that comes with not being in a static area that also contains dogs, child and significant other. Thus I'm not surprised when it stopped letting me access some of my files saved on the external drive. Disappointed. But not surprised.
After a quick google run my best guess as to what's wrong is that it has a RAW drive system? Like I said, I'm pretty illiterate about this stuff so I could be severely wrong. That's why I'm shooting in the dark and asking here before I make decisions. The internet says there's programs I can purchase to recover my files and not lose them but I don't want to buy something that doesn't really work or is more expensive than I need. So if you all think one of these programs could help me out, would you mind posting your recommendations? For those that care, the actual error I get whenever I try to open up one of the effected files/folders is... "F:\yadayada\yadada is not accessible. The device is not ready."
Is it only some folders/files being affected, or certain operations on those? As stated above, that sort of error message is common if your drive is constantly dis- and re-connecting due to damaged cables. |
|
|
|
Post by freezn on Dec 6, 2020 2:57:42 GMT -5
It's only some of the folders/files that are affected. I figured it had something to do with the cord and it being unplugged/replugged inappropriately.
I suppose I could order another cord. That's cheaper than some of the apps I've seen out there.
|
|
|
|
Post by Raven on Dec 6, 2020 6:47:24 GMT -5
I would check on the external disk integrity. There are tools in Windows 10 to do that and you should be able to use them to see if the external disk is good. You likely don't need to defrag or even optimize the disk but it will let you know if there are bad "spots" on the disk. Cables are usually an all or nothing and not specific files or folders but stuff can be quirky that way. I would check on the external hard drive health first before buying a new cable. This article seemed good but I just looked at it briefly. Checking your hard drive's health |
|
