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removable Hard Drive gone aggggggggg

  • 11-03-2006 10:27pm
    #1
    patoinsf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭


    Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction to find the lost data on a removable hard drive. I have I am running windows XP sp2 I have no problem reading from any but one of my removable hard drives. When I boot with the bad one installed windows does not recognize it as a full disk but instead asks me if I want to format it. The files on the disk are pretty large but I dont have their names. I have gone into disk management but am worried that if I do anything the data on the disk will be gone for good. it is a 200Gig disk full of family stuff


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  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    PC Inspector File Recovery [freeware] did a good job for me when an external Maxtor HD when kaput, Windows would not read the contents of the drive but this program did and I was able to recover 90% of the data. Whether it will do the same for you I couldn't say but it is worth a try.


  • #3
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Nice tip there 8T8, this looks like a good, free alternative to EasyRecovery pro.


  • #4
    patoinsf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭patoinsf


    Thanks Guys
    There are two things about the PC recovery software. One I'm not sure what type of files are on the disk and Two it is extremely slow I tried to recover any AVI files and 4 hours later it was 2% complete. I really appreciate the input
    .................................................................Thanks


  • #5
    zuma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭zuma


    I use a program called File Scavenger....it works great!

    PM me for tips!


  • #6
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Yes these programs can take some time to recover the data but the simplest thing to do would be to recover everything and leave it to it. Of course the speed problem could be related to something wrong with the HD or the file system it is tricky to say, it took me a while to get everything back at least several hours from 250GB HD.

    If these avi files are very large you could always leave them till last to recover.


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