UDF hard drive?

APM · 24 Mar 2016 at 19:12

Good evening gents,

I've been using a WD 1TB external drive for storage on both a Linux and a Windows 7 machine.

All fine for a good while until today when the Windows PC won't see the drive.
I go to disk management and I see a drive marked as having a UDF file format.

The drive works fine on a Linux machine.

From what I can gather UDF is a file format used on CD's and DVD's.

Anyone have an idea what's happening and if it's possible I can recover the drive to it's original NTFS settings?

Thanks.

APM · 24 Mar 2016 at 20:05

Actually ,I tell a lie,Windows can't see the drive at all.

tres_kun · 24 Mar 2016 at 20:47

do you have a back-up of your data?
is it verry important?

APM · 24 Mar 2016 at 21:12

It is a back up drive.

Linux it works as well as it's always done but windows just doesn't see it anyore.
Not in disk management ,nor Intel RST.

APM · 24 Mar 2016 at 22:31

Panic over I think,looks like a driver double loaded and a re-boot is all that's required.