External hardrive

[Please help] External hardrive

rikykaku
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03-06-2019, 06:07 PM

#1

Please i ejected my external hard drive in android x86 on my laptop and mistakenly booted to windows without mounting it back and now i cannot find my external hard again. Please help.

freshtyt
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03-06-2019, 07:31 PM

#2

(03-06-2019, 06:07 PM)rikykaku Please i ejected my external hard drive in android x86 on my laptop and mistakenly booted to windows without mounting it back and now i cannot find my external hard again. Please help.

check disk management on windows if the hdd shows up there, and what does it get detected as?
OR return back to android x86 mount the hdd (ensure it shows up) then reboot to windows and recheck

rikykaku
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03-06-2019, 07:45 PM

#3

yes in disk management it shows up and i only see it full size but with not it letter name in various partition.
i installed the android x86 on that external hard drive so it cannot boot any more

rikykaku
Enthusiastic Member

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03-06-2019, 09:58 PM

#4

that is, on booting to android x86 it load trying to find the installed android on the hdd but fails to pick in order to boot and return back to the dual boot tab ( i.e, grub command line, advance, android debug and windows). Please help

freshtyt
Senior Member

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04-06-2019, 09:43 AM

#5

(03-06-2019, 07:45 PM)rikykaku yes in disk management it shows up and i only see it full size but with not it letter name in various partition.
i installed the android x86 on that external hard drive so it cannot boot any more

right click on the partition then assign drive letters to the various partitions then check if it shows up in windows explorer
it should unless the partitions are formatted to file system that windows can't recognize such as EXT4, in which case you'll need to reformat the hdd to ntfs to use on windows

i believe its on EXT4 cause thats what android (linux) uses anyways and the reason its not showing up in windows

This post was last modified: 04-06-2019, 09:44 AM by freshtyt.

rikykaku
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04-06-2019, 09:48 AM

#6

when i right click i only see delete volume and help option. All other function are deactivated. Please what should i do next?

rikykaku
Enthusiastic Member

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04-06-2019, 09:53 AM

#7

And then Please help me remove it from EXT4

xerxes
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05-06-2019, 09:33 AM

#8

(04-06-2019, 09:48 AM)rikykaku when i right click i only see delete volume and help option. All other function are deactivated. Please what should i do next?

What of New Simple Volume? Is there anything like that?

shankar1790
Senior Member

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05-06-2019, 10:18 AM

#9

(04-06-2019, 09:48 AM)rikykaku when i right click i only see delete volume and help option. All other function are deactivated. Please what should i do next?

First check whether it is ext4 format or not .To know this you can simply install any partition tool like Mini tool partition wizard( free or crack your choice) or easyus partition wizard ,etc and launch it and see what is the partition type.
you can manually assign drive letter to the partition which windows disk managment system refuses. you can manage all partition in mini tool partition wizard.
you can read ext4 in windows by this tool but do at your own risk because sometime it corrupts filesystem
DiskInternals Linux Reader

This post was last modified: 05-06-2019, 10:22 AM by shankar1790.

X3non
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05-06-2019, 05:40 PM

#10

(04-06-2019, 09:48 AM)rikykaku when i right click i only see delete volume and help option. All other function are deactivated. Please what should i do next?

from @shankar1790's reply, you can download mini tool partition wizard @ https://www.minitool.com/download-center/

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