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Was in the process of transfering stuff from one of my external HDD's when it just decided to stop working.
Managed to save some photos and documents but lost over 60 Metallica shows (DVD) and also all of my music (over 25000 songs)
Whenever I try and connect it it does'nt even register anymore (no USB sound) not showing in My Computer, Device Manager or in Disk Management. Tried different PC's, laptop, power source, usb cables etc all with the same result. Everything i've read has pointed in the direction of Professional Data Recovery Services which is BIG $ and still no guarantees of saving everything.
Wow that sucks!It's possible that the partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are damaged or lost.Have you thought about a program called GetDataBack?I put a mate of mine onto it a while back when his internal HDD went FUBAR,and he managed to save quite a bit of stuff,might be worth a try maybe?
J0nn0666 wrote: Wow that sucks!It's possible that the partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are damaged or lost.Have you thought about a program called GetDataBack?I put a mate of mine onto it a while back when his internal HDD went FUBAR,and he managed to save quite a bit of stuff,might be worth a try maybe?
Tried both of these suggestions without any luck. The biggest problem/concern is that the external HDD just is'nt recognized so these programs don't even see the drive to be able to even run any test's. It's hard to fix something that's invisible lol
I'm going to give it to my wife's IT guys and hopefully they can remove it from the housing and try booting it as a normal drive. Fingers crossed that it's an internal connection/usb issue and not completely fried.
that sucks.
It happened for me as well something like that years ago. I had an external HD and at one time, when I was connecting it, it was says I needed to format it to enter it, wtf!
So I finally lost everything, there was no way to access the data.
Now I don't trust external HDD anymore....so I maybe make 2 copies of the same HDD or burn the most important data on BluRay.
If you send it to KrollOnTrack they will probably get everything back, but it's going to be expensive!
We did it in the office years ago with an internal HDD.
Sounds really bad Adam. I hope you get the shows
back from the HDD in some way or another.
1991-1992-1993
Touring for two years was more than my body could take.
You're there and your head tells you that you have to go on,
but your body is close to giving out. Five to six days a week,
i was on stage for about two and a half hours every night.
Doing that for over two years, my larynx didn't feel great,
it felt like my vocal cords were just falling apart
this sucks, and i know exactly how you feel.
i lost 2 of my externals not so long ago.
lost 99.9 of my livemet collection of which i did get some back and many many dvd's i had stored on them.
now i have 4 external drives. and have lots of stuff on them all.
id go crazy if i lost them.
i did however use the following programs which did get me some of the files etc back so might be worth looking at
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/
This happened to me not all that long ago actually so I pulled the case apart and just plugged it in as an internal. Managed to get everything back thankfully but I'm not gonna trust that drive again.
Sepu wrote: that sucks.
It happened for me as well something like that years ago. I had an external HD and at one time, when I was connecting it, it was says I needed to format it to enter it, wtf!
So I finally lost everything, there was no way to access the data.
Now I don't trust external HDD anymore....so I maybe make 2 copies of the same HDD or burn the most important data on BluRay.
If you send it to KrollOnTrack they will probably get everything back, but it's going to be expensive!
We did it in the office years ago with an internal HDD.
Good luck!
Can't understand, why HDD format option is such a big deal, you can recover everything even after format. But this issue is much harder to solve.
In any case you can bring it to specialists, nowdays lots of HDD labarotories making incredible things even with HDDs damaged by fire, it can costs 100$-200$, but I pretty sure that such a big part of your life worth it
