{"id":8858,"date":"2021-11-29T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=8858"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:55:37","slug":"my-samsung-s2-portable-1tb-external-hdd-wants-to-format","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/my-samsung-s2-portable-1tb-external-hdd-wants-to-format\/90759.html","title":{"rendered":"My Samsung S2 Portable 1TB External HDD Wants To Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My hard drive (Samsung S2 Portable, 1 TB) seems to have some personal issues, that needs to be dealt with. There&#8217;s two problems with it; 1) I get the &#8220;You must format to use&#8221;-error, and it seems like it really wants to point out this error. When I plug it into my desktop computer it just keeps on giving the message over and over again if I ignore it. 2) It&#8217;s not even visible on my computer. It tends to be visible for a couple of minutes, and then dissapear, with the errors beginning to stack up.<\/p>\n<p>When I plug this hard drive into my laptop, I still get the message, but I am able to copy to and from the hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>The hard drive is a couple of years old, but it has never suffered from any falls or been damaged afaik. It receives its power from the computer, and does not have its own power plug.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried a lot of fixing programs and tutorials, but those guides doesn&#8217;t cover both issues.<\/p>\n<p>Anything will help! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":16},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8858","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}