How do I save info from Brother WP 3550 to a new disk on a PC?

SOURCE: Windows not able to detect Hard Disk in My computer

1. Rightclick on your "My computer" icon.

2. Doubleclick the Manage option.

3. A screen will appear called: "Computer Management".

4. In the tree on the left you see "Storage" and the option "Disk Management" below it.

5. Select "Disk Management", and locate your SimpleDrive.

What does it say? If it shows only "Unallocated Space" you'll need to create a new partition on it. (Right click the unallocated space, then it'll show some options). If it is allocated, try formatting it. If you don't see your drive > reconnect it.

Let me know if this helped. Please rate.

Greetings,

DarkNeogen.

SOURCE: hard disk I/O error cannot formate harddisk shows no fixed disks how to solve

Please try to check with your cmos system if it was detected, if not means your harddrive was absolutely damage.

Please rate me solved!

Best regards,

Philip

SOURCE: After blackout Mac-formatted ext. hard drive won't mount says its pc-formatted

Here is my best guess and strong suggestion. First do nothing else until you have your work off loaded to some other drive or media....and I mean do nothing....don't even turn it off until this is completed. Once that is done verify your work is there. Then learn to smoke or drink and sing hallelujah.

My best guess is you lost the FAT (file allocation table)...meaning it got (literally) zapped by the power failure (spike) which makes sense since it's continually being accessed. Lacie should have a disk diagnostics program on their website....that loaded onto a diskette or cd would be my first step. It will tell you if the drive is good or not. If good and after you have off loaded your files to a safe media then the fastest solution is probably to reformat and reload your applications then reload your files. I say fastest as (in my twilight years) I have almost (it's a pride thing) given up solving hard problems the hard way...particularly when they can be both hardware and software interrelated.

A couple of other points....uploading to the net your files (even if it costs) or using a bit torrent to transfer to a friends machine (pay for the other drive) or using raid (which I am not a big fan of) or copying them to a one touch....(possibly the least expensive solution (just start it at night...it's not fast the first time and do it daily). You have too much invested to get had by Mother Nature.

Why would I tell you this....well, there was the time I worked all night to finish some code and just as I finished (without saving once) and feeling satisfied I stretched back, extended legs and knocked the plug out of the socket. I also had a computer shop
wipe my disconnected spare duplicate drive at the same time they wiped my master. Today, and I have multiple large projects I work on (mine...not others), and despite more backups in more ways than you can imagine I am still subject to bouts of paranoia.

Lastly....Am not up to date with Mac but at some of the freeware sites I have run across utilities that might be of help. Trying to restore the fat (Windows keeps two copies) might be a possibility and I assume Mac has something similar. But I would only attempt this based on what the drive diagnostics results are....i.e. if you have more than 4 bad clusters it's probably not worth taking the chance of another major disruption. Hope this helps or at least points you in the right direction. Tango

SOURCE: Can´t access the hard disk

Assuming you are running Windows XP or Vista, you probably need to (re)create the disk partition and format it. If the chkdsk does not complete, there is a real problem with the disk.
Try using the disk manager (computer management in the admin tools) to delete/create the partition and (re)format it.

If you have data on it that you can not afford to loose, you'd need to try a data recovery program first of course.

Chris

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• Posted on Jul 08, 2009

SOURCE: Tried installing hdd from cctv dvr to save it's contents.....

Hi,

Most PVR's use a small linux micro operating system to run there menus and handle the drives, as such many of the drives used by them are formatted in Ext2/3. You will need to install a driver in windows that allows it to mount ext? drives and then you should have no problem accessing it. The link below will take you to a download site for a free driver, but they do ask you to donate. Please if it works throw them a bone as this is how they keep providing such useful software for all of us.

If this works, copy the files to your computer and then let the PVR reformat the drive, unfortunately when windows doesn't recognize the drive as being formatted, it marks it. That mark is messing with the PVR but after you add these drivers you should have no problem moving the drive back and fourth as it will recognize the drive and it's data in the future.
http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html


Hope this helps FixYa,


Chris