External HDD not showing in explorer, only have "Delete Volume" in Disk Management

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my external hard disk is not showing up in Explorer. In Disk Management, all of the options are grayed out except for "Delete Volume".

I tried right-clicking on the Disk and selecting "Convert to Dynamic Disk", but it returned with error message "The operation is not supported by the object".

Is there anything I can do to access it so I can backup my data?

External HDD is Disk 1

khairul

Posted 2013-05-13T16:37:18.253

Reputation: 161

so there is no data on the external drive? – Carl B – 2013-05-13T17:06:51.030

@CarlB: There is. I tried running Zero Assumption Recovery on it and it does found some data. But the structure is incomplete hence why I prefer to be able to access the HDD the normal way and backup. – khairul – 2013-05-14T00:46:31.490

Answers

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Using TestDisk, I discovered that my external HDD had actually been converted to Linux file system. Such a shame that even Windows 8, Disk Management can't at least tell if the hard disk is using a file system created in Mac or Linux.

I managed to back up all of my documents on Windows itself, using DiskInternals Linux.

khairul

Posted 2013-05-13T16:37:18.253

Reputation: 161

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