20 Most Recent Verbatim External, USB 2.0, 750GB Capacity, Silver . 750 GB Hard Drive - Page 4 Questions & Answers

that can happen with a healthy dvd recorder and all you can do is use a different brand, BUT that may change in the future as verbatim may licence a diff. manufacturing house to produce dont use dvd+r only -r

looks like the hdd is up for toss. you need to see data recovery specialist to regain data .

Right click on the file and select "properties" in context menu. Remove the "read only" check box

Your best bet is to buy a donor drive of the same make/model, remove the circuit board and install it on your broken drive - get your data but don't try to continue to use it after that because it will fail.

I feel your pain. If this is the drive you boot with - you can try booting from a bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. Then, connect the 1TB drive to see if you can access it. Copy any data you need to another disk. If you can not access or retrieve any data from the disk - you're pretty much done unless you're willing to spend some big money having the data professionally retrieved. There are a few companies that do this - below is a link to one of them that has been around for a long time. I have no idea as to how good they are and if there are companies that do this for less money, etc. Do your homework investigating before sending it off. Good luck! Kroll Ontrack recognized leader in legal technologies and data recovery...

I suggest you re-install it's driver, or just try to connect the disk to another pc, the driver should be installed automatically

Select it. Right-click it. Choose "Send To..." and then select the disk.

try replugging it in, all cords. Is it possible the units cord is defective or damaged even?

What do you see when you look at the directory? What is using the drive? If nothing is there, try formatting the drive. Right click on the icon in "My Computer" Choose "Format" Format the entire drive. If that does not work, you may more than one partition on your drive. Let me know what you find. I can help more.

Hard drive could have damaged file system which would require a repair. Hard drive may have failed. Just listen for a clicking sound. If you hear it, your drive is bad.

You should be able to open windows explorer, navigate to the external hard drive, click on it and see the files which are there. Then you can pick the ones you want to delete and delete them.

Refer the user manual at this site for procedure to factory reset. You could loose all the data on the drive. Check the instructions carefully. http://www.verbatim.com/includes/binary_details.php3?show=1&id=1006

Is it even recognized? Did it work at one time? What has been done to change that?