Samsung M3 Portable Hard Drive Issue

[ddyoui]

Hi, i own a samsung m3 portable hard drive (1tb). After I tried plugging it into my TV (which didn't work anyway), my computer (windows 7) wouldn't pick it up in explorer. However it would does show in device manager. I also tried opening it in disk management and the window gets stuck on connecting to virtual disk service. can you help me??

[Geek-9pm]

Please clarify.
Was it ever working?
Why did you plug it into your TV?
Way do you use virtual disk service?
Have you tried another PC?
Possible relevance:
Connecting an external HDD as a Mass Storage Class device.

With this connection, the HDD can be used only as a storage device. The connection needs to comply with the following requirements:

    The HDD must be formatted in FAT32 or NTFS.
    The HDD needs to have its own power supply, because the TV does not provide one.
    The HDD needs to be connected to a USB input

[ddyoui]

Hi,

Before i plugged it in, it worked perfectly with my computer

i plugged it in to my tv to try and view some video/picture files on it. I have used this method before with other storage devices

It said and got stuck on 'Connecting to Virtual Disk Service' when i tried to open the 'Disk Management' Tool

Yes, i have tried it with 2 other computers (XP and another 7), which gave the same results

[Lisa_maree]

Hi

Sometimes  when a drive is unplugged from a device that is trying to mount it if leaves the drive corrupted, Then it's data recovery software time. A free easy to use option is Find and Mount  from here
http://hddguru.com/software/2007.05.25-Partition-Find-and-Mount/
I haven't used it on WIN7 so best to load it on the XP