External hard drive recovery?

dad123 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:04 pm **Posts:** 5877

Doe any know of good hard drive recovery software?for some reason i lost all the data i had on one of my external hard drives(500 gb).i restarted my computer,the when it came up all the data was gone.

Kevin77 · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 8:07 pm

First thing, unplug it and don't do anything on that drive!

Next try freeware before you buy anything. Here's a link to Test Disk which I've used successfully.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

How did you lose all the data? Is the drive still recognized by windows?

dad123 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:04 pm **Posts:** 5877

Kevin77 wrote:

First thing, unplug it and don't do anything on that drive!

Next try freeware before you buy anything. Here's a link to Test Disk which I've used successfully.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

How did you lose all the data? Is the drive still recognized by windows?

i just restarted my computer,when it came up the data was gone.
i have used pc inspector file recovery and it does work,it found each individual file.is there any software the recovers the data the way it was?
the drive is now recognized as a local disk instead of a maxtor drive.when i click on it the computer asks if i want to format the drive.

Kevin77 · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 8:26 pm

Do you mean folders and directories? I'm not sure about that.

Something isn't right with that drive you're using. I've heard of raid issues with Maxtor drives. If something screwy happens you can lose all your files. I would move everything over to another hard drive and keep that as a back up.

dad123 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:04 pm **Posts:** 5877

Kevin77 wrote:

Do you mean folders and directories? I'm not sure about that.

Something isn't right with that drive you're using. I've heard of raid issues with Maxtor drives. If something screwy happens you can lose all your files. I would move everything over to another hard drive and keep that as a back up.

i bought a seagate to use,but moving the files is painstaking.i have to sift through a bunch of stuff that i dont recognize.

tdubya68801 · **Posted:** Mon May 31, 2010 11:49 pm

I had a Maxtor external 100GB drive and it screwed up late last year. It may not be the hard drive but has something to do with the power supply in the enclosure. I took the HDD out of the enclosure and put it in a new one I bought and it worked. The original Maxtor enclosure did not have an on-off switch like the Masscool enclosure I bought for that drive.

thesweetdevilguy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:00 am **Posts:** 99

dad123 wrote:

Kevin77 wrote:

First thing, unplug it and don't do anything on that drive!

Next try freeware before you buy anything. Here's a link to Test Disk which I've used successfully.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

How did you lose all the data? Is the drive still recognized by windows?

i just restarted my computer,when it came up the data was gone.
i have used pc inspector file recovery and it does work,it found each individual file.is there any software the recovers the data the way it was?
the drive is now recognized as a local disk instead of a maxtor drive.when i click on it the computer asks if i want to format the drive.

well i have quite some experience.. there are many softwares.. as kevin said..

there is get back data and other stuff..

i have tried replicating the issue which you had..

i have an old version of Disc probe (by microsoft ) this used to come with windows 2000 sp4.. i am sure you would get it.

this is really pain staking.

you should know what are you doing.. if you require any help let me know.

dad123 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:04 pm **Posts:** 5877

thesweetdevilguy wrote:

dad123 wrote:

Kevin77 wrote:

First thing, unplug it and don't do anything on that drive!

Next try freeware before you buy anything. Here's a link to Test Disk which I've used successfully.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

How did you lose all the data? Is the drive still recognized by windows?

i just restarted my computer,when it came up the data was gone.
i have used pc inspector file recovery and it does work,it found each individual file.is there any software the recovers the data the way it was?
the drive is now recognized as a local disk instead of a maxtor drive.when i click on it the computer asks if i want to format the drive.

well i have quite some experience.. there are many softwares.. as kevin said..

there is get back data and other stuff..

i have tried replicating the issue which you had..

i have an old version of Disc probe (by microsoft ) this used to come with windows 2000 sp4.. i am sure you would get it.

this is really pain staking.

you should know what are you doing.. if you require any help let me know.

i took care of the problem a long time ago.i used a program called pc inspecter file recovery.thanks anyway.

thesweetdevilguy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:00 am **Posts:** 99

dad123 wrote:

thesweetdevilguy wrote:

dad123 wrote:

Kevin77 wrote:

First thing, unplug it and don't do anything on that drive!

Next try freeware before you buy anything. Here's a link to Test Disk which I've used successfully.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

How did you lose all the data? Is the drive still recognized by windows?

i just restarted my computer,when it came up the data was gone.
i have used pc inspector file recovery and it does work,it found each individual file.is there any software the recovers the data the way it was?
the drive is now recognized as a local disk instead of a maxtor drive.when i click on it the computer asks if i want to format the drive.

well i have quite some experience.. there are many softwares.. as kevin said..

there is get back data and other stuff..

i have tried replicating the issue which you had..

i have an old version of Disc probe (by microsoft ) this used to come with windows 2000 sp4.. i am sure you would get it.

this is really pain staking.

you should know what are you doing.. if you require any help let me know.

i took care of the problem a long time ago.i used a program called pc inspecter file recovery.thanks anyway.

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