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External Hard Drive recovery
Undead Scottsman
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Okay, so despite the computer saying it was okay to disconnect the drive, I apparently have managed to fudge up my external drive that had a lot of old crap I kinda still want on it. Basically right now the drive shows up as being 0 bytes in size and accessing it gets me a "Drive is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable" error
After going through a ton of partition recovery programs, I finally found one that managed to see the files on the drive: DiskGetor. The only issue is I got cockblocked when I actually tried to recover the files and it asked me to register, and at $69 bucks, it's not quite worth that much to me.
Anyone know of a freeware program that can either fix the drive or recover the files?
After going through a ton of partition recovery programs, I finally found one that managed to see the files on the drive: DiskGetor. The only issue is I got cockblocked when I actually tried to recover the files and it asked me to register, and at $69 bucks, it's not quite worth that much to me.
Anyone know of a freeware program that can either fix the drive or recover the files?
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Recuva is also free. It doesn't have all the features of the other one, but it's supposed to be easier to use.
Yep, PC Inspector takes over 200 to scan the drive of 320gb. (I knew I should ahve gotten firewire and not USB.)
There's very little you can do to really speed this process up. Firewire 800 would be nice (NewEgg link to FW800/USB 2.0 bus-powered 2.5" enclsoure) for this, most of the work has to be done by the program doing the scanning. Just let 'er rip for a couple days.
Nah, it was only 200 minutes. Sadly PC Inspector didn't really provide anything worth saving. Every file is listed as being 1440 KB and has the name "CHECKSOME14123" or whatever. The other one didn't even work at all. (It just showed deleted files)
That doesn't sound right. Have you heard any scraping sounds or grinding? I'm wondering if the head is torched on that drive.
Nope, no scraping noises. The other program can see the data just fine (it just won't let me recovery them without a $69 registry key.
Yep, try this one, the trial version will let you pull up to a terabyte of data off a hard drive (and the program does work.)
The software can recover deleted data from hard drive, flash drives, memory card, external hard drive, etc. It can work on almost all versions of Windows computers. In all versions, data loss scenario is common. Suppose you are using Windows Vista and if you have deleted files from Vista then you can recover deleted files Vista easily using this software. To try out software download and install demo version of the software in your system.