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USB hard drive failed to initialize

homewardbound11 · 2015-04-29 19:32:12

my USB had failed last night to recognise it as a hard drive. It was available as a USB device but it was in allocated. I initialized it but did not format it. I can't see it now either but online pay software does recognise most of the files. Is there anything I can do to recover this had as it appears to work but must…

29-04-2015 7:32pm

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homewardbound11

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my USB had failed last night to recognise it as a hard drive. It was available as a USB device but it was in allocated. I initialized it but did not format it. I can't see it now either but online pay software does recognise most of the files.
Is there anything I can do to recover this had as it appears to work but must have lost clusters

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#2 01-05-2015 8:59pm

johnnybmac

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I generally use Recuva to retrieve lost files...

You could also try something like Easus partition recovery to find lost partitions and recover data from them...

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