Data recovery?

Priapus · 13 Feb 2007 at 15:41

Howzit Guys,

I have an external hard drive. That a friend of mine decided it would be a great idea to pull the USB cable out while it was still transfering data across it. So now when I plug it in, it asks me to format, I don't want to do that I need to get data off it first!

Is there anyway I can do it without loosing it all!

many thanks!

The_KiD · 13 Feb 2007 at 15:50

Could try R-Studio? http://www.r-studio.com/

Priapus · 13 Feb 2007 at 15:54

Thanks, Darren. I will give that a try now.

bledd · 13 Feb 2007 at 17:06

use testdisk to recover the partition information and data

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (takes about 5 seconds if its in tact)

Priapus · 13 Feb 2007 at 17:13

Thanks, Bledd.

Will give it ago.

Phate · 13 Feb 2007 at 17:17

I'd remove the disk from the caddy and (providing you have a spare hard drive) just do a ghost of the hard drive.

Then you should be able to read the data from the hard drive you ghosted to. then you can delete the partition and recreate it on the external one and copy it back across.

Thats a theory, but it all depends on how badly the partition has been damaged.

Good Luck!

Priapus · 14 Feb 2007 at 06:16

bledd. said:
use testdisk to recover the partition information and data

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (takes about 5 seconds if its in tact)

Now this program allows me to see the files that are on there. How do I take them off and put them on the computer now?

Priapus · 14 Feb 2007 at 06:17

Phate said:
I'd remove the disk from the caddy and (providing you have a spare hard drive) just do a ghost of the hard drive.

Then you should be able to read the data from the hard drive you ghosted to. then you can delete the partition and recreate it on the external one and copy it back across.

Thats a theory, but it all depends on how badly the partition has been damaged.

Good Luck!

Will give it ago, Jacob if the above fails!