re: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 12:02 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6122 messages posted) You stated a "caddy".. Is this a USB/FIREWIRE drive or is it in a removeable HDD bay? Makes a difference and I just assumed you meant it was a USB drive. If a remoaveable drive bay, you should be able to use recovery and diagnostics software while it is in the tray (caddy). If recovery software says it is to corrupt, then the data is lost. On Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 3:59 am, mike wrote: >Just had message " File or Directory is corrupted and Inaccessible" when attempting >to open 160G USB HDD, 60G used.. Caddy still lit up, Icon is in my Computer, says >healthy in Disk Management. >Does this mean a dead or scrambled HD? >If so any options , repair/ find deleted files > software, etc? >If all data lost, is it likely to work after re-formatting and if so how can this >be prevented in future? >Thanks Written in response to: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (mike: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 3:59 am) Responses to this message: re: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (mike: Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 1:38 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (mike: Wed, May 21, 2008, 3:59 am) re: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (C K: Wed, May 21, 2008, 11:43 am) re: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (C K: Wed, May 21, 2008, 12:02 pm) re: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (mike: Thu, May 22, 2008, 1:38 am) re: Corrupted & Inaccessible USB HDD (C K: Thu, May 22, 2008, 10:35 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum