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HDD access issue...

  • 31-01-2011 10:58am
    #1
    Alfreado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭


    I have 2 hard driver lying around the house from older laptops that died. I bought a pair of external cases so I could pull the data off them. Quite alot of music and photo's I dont fancy loosing.

    So, I connected the first one, 160gb sata, open my computer and I can see an F and G drive. The G is the recovery partion which is useless to me unfortunately, but opens fine and I can browse the contents. When I try to open the F drive it says I need to format the drive. I've tried to open it via my computer to no avail, I went into the properties and disk management to try get in but no joy.

    Any tips to this?? :confused:


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  • #2
    Alfreado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭Alfreado


    Oh and one last thing, when I open dskmgmt it shows the F drive is healthy and as "RAW" while all other hard drives (my own 500gb and the other partions on the 160gb) are listed as NTFS. Is this the problem?

    Edit: just did a quick google and I see the RAW means its unformatted and needs to be formatted before use. Does this mean the disk was wiped by the old system when it crashed and the data is lost?


  • #3
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Alfreado wrote: »
    Oh and one last thing, when I open dskmgmt it shows the F drive is healthy and as "RAW" while all other hard drives (my own 500gb and the other partions on the 160gb) are listed as NTFS. Is this the problem?

    Edit: just did a quick google and I see the RAW means its unformatted and needs to be formatted before use. Does this mean the disk was wiped by the old system when it crashed and the data is lost?

    Probably.

    Try running a chkdsk f: and see what filesystem it thinks is on it !


  • #4
    Alfreado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭Alfreado


    Is that not what I was saying above, all other partions are showing as ntfs but the one I want to access is listed as a raw. I take it from that it's after wiping itself or something?


  • #5
    practice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭practice


    Download the free program "Recuva" install it on your computer, run it to check the F drive and see what you get.


  • #6
    Alfreado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭Alfreado


    Recuva is €20 now. I dont want to chance buying software for it not to work ya know? Tried testdisk last night but it doesn't seem to work on either win7 or just my systen


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  • #7
    Alfreado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭Alfreado


    Also just ran glary undelete and it showed nothing :(

    On a side note, I ordered a 2TB external HDD today for backup. They're such good value at the minute I think after all this trouble I will order another as backup for the backup!!!


  • #8
    practice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭practice


    Alfreado wrote: »
    Recuva is €20 now. I dont want to chance buying software for it not to work ya know? Tried testdisk last night but it doesn't seem to work on either win7 or just my systen
    Shocked to read this.
    Good luck with the 2TB. Would be terrified to use that size the nightmare of the loss of DATA would kill me.

    Sorry just checked www.downloads.com and this is free
    Recuva 1.39.509


  • #9
    Alfreado
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭Alfreado


    practice wrote: »
    Shocked to read this.
    Good luck with the 2TB. Would be terrified to use that size the nightmare of the loss of DATA would kill me.


    Sorry just checked www.downloads.com and this is free
    Recuva 1.39.509

    F*** it, the bigger the better. It might take my dvd collection aswell that I've start digitalising!

    Will check downloads.com now, i just googled it and on the softwares homepage it said it was €20, cheers for the link!


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