Problem with my external hard drive

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gregblade

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Hi folks,
Im currently using a Western Digital MyBook Pro 250 GB external hard drive as media storage to free up disc space on my Asus A6U Notebook.

After my notebook crashed last night, I gave it time to correct itself but it didn't work. So I switched off the power supply and disconnected the USB devices etc.

I then restarted the laptop and reconnected all the devices.

I went to check everything was ok and to my horror when I try to open the external hard drive from "My Computer" it says " The Drive is not Formatted, Please format the drive".

I formatted the drive when I bought it, and it has been working fine for 10 months, I had over 80gb of music and 1000's of photos.

Any ideas to get it back? Without having to fork out for a data recovery firm?

Any help will be greatly recieved!
 
I cant remember the name. But I ran the diagnostic then downloaded a "Partition Table Docter 3.0. " After downloading the partition it took about 3 seconds to fix it!
 
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