Reformatted hard drive now unreadable

[kees.chambo]

I recently swapped from a PC to Mac but kept my old hard drive. I reformatted the hard drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but immediately after could no longer be read by either Mac or PC!
Files were backed up but i need the hard drive to work again, suggestions?

 

[flowrider]

Have you tried running "Repair Disk" in Disk Utility? And, if you have it you could try TechTool Pro or Disk Warrior to try and repair the disk.

Lou

 

[macs4nw]

I recently swapped from a PC to Mac but kept my old hard drive. I reformatted the hard drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but immediately after could no longer be read by either Mac or PC!
Files were backed up but i need the hard drive to work again, suggestions?

When you reformat a hard drive, it erases all the content on that drive, so naturally you can't read from it anymore, but that old HD should now be ready to be written to by your Mac. Good thing you had those files backed up!

 

[Dweez]

I don't believe any Windows OS can read Mac formatted devices, unless formatted as ExFAT.

When you say it's not readable, what exactly do you mean? Does the drive mount when connected?

 

[joshlalonde]

Perhaps you didn't actually make a partition. So its just a blank amount of space with no file system..

Try formatting it again, doesn't hurt. As long as your data is backed up.