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Is recovery of files from an external HDD possible?
StudioZEL
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My sister just called me practically crying over the phone because her laptop (an HP model running Vista) no longer recognizes her external HDD's partition. When she took attached it to her desktop (another HP, but XP) it didn't recognize the drive at all.
When she reinstalled the Maxtor helper program, it recognized that the HDD was connected, but couldn't find the partition, asking if she wanted to create a new one (which would delete everything on the external HDD).
I've heard of data recovery for internal primary drives, but never for an external drive. Is it possible to recover data from an external HDD before reformatting it? If so, how does one do this?
When she reinstalled the Maxtor helper program, it recognized that the HDD was connected, but couldn't find the partition, asking if she wanted to create a new one (which would delete everything on the external HDD).
I've heard of data recovery for internal primary drives, but never for an external drive. Is it possible to recover data from an external HDD before reformatting it? If so, how does one do this?
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Unless the heads are trashed you should be able to get the information off the disk fairly easy. I use a product similar to This to pull information off regular drives weekly.