how to reformat my passport if cannot find drive

I placed it into an enclosure, but still did not have any luck. The bios recoginized it, but indicated a SMART error and would not boot to it.

I replace the board and the drive now starts up. I found a PCB replacement online that completely matched the bad one. After that, the drive would not power up. It had just booted up into Windows when I smelt it burning so I pulled the power. I think I had a bad power supply that caused a chip on the PCB to burn. I have a Maxtor drive that had a damaged PCB. I am very interested and would appreciate any information you could share.

You mentioned that you knew of some methods for retrieval. I recently read a post of yours in which you were discussing options for retrieving data from a failed Maxtor Drive. This showld solve your problem :) any doubt or issue, please send e-mail, I sow your message shearching web and on the fly. IF you DOT NOT HAVE ANY DATA TO RESTORE or UNDELET, becous this will DELETE anything on the drive, do as follow, select the Disk with the BLACK bar and on right-mouse click select 'create Partition', 'primary partition', maxim disk size to have all disk avaliable, and chose 'NTFS' for disks with more than ~30GB or FAT32 to a Disk Size smaller than 30 and larger than 8GB etc. They all have a color bar on the TOP, HardDrives have it on BLUE, and you connect USB drive that you say that windows does not recognize, showld appear with the top bar on BLACK, meaning that has no partition on it. Now you're seeing your Disks, Disk0, Disk1, etc this deppend on the number of disks that you have and CDRom etc. Open 'Control Panel', then open 'Administrative tools', then open 'computer management', in there select 'Storage' and 'Disk Management'. I see two ways to solve that, a simple one and a bit difficult one.Ĭonnect your external HardDrive to your PC.

How to reformat my passport if cannot find drive