Drive recovery / error fixing software?

Jamesyboyjim

Jamesyboyjim

Jamesyboyjim

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Morning all,

I'm sure its been answered before but I couldn't find the answer

I have a drive that's been in use for a few years now as a download drive so its had plenty of use, the other day it wasn't readable in windows, strange I thought, rebooted the pc, on startup windows ran a scan on the drive and did its thing to get the drive working again,

I thought at this point the drive is on the way out so I better get it replaced asap.

Well, as of yesterday I cannot access it, it shows up in the bios and in windows but disc management just sees it as raw rather than with an ntfs partition.

I'm hoping there might be some software that could dig a little deeper than windows and grant me access for just enough time to salvage as much as I can from hte drive?

In my experience, drives start to fail over a course of time so I'll be gutted if in the space of two days, its bitten the bullet completely?
 
its not looking too promising, I tried that software linked above, it found a few folders but nothing too interesting.

downloaded another piece of recovery software, one that came quite highly rated (cant remember the name) ran a deep scan on the drive (took all night) and it seems to think its discovered 9tb of recoverable data. That would be great except the drive is only 1tb and I have nowhere to recover 9tb to!

Might have to take this one on the chin, nothing too important on the drive, anything worthwhile is copied to another drive but still annoying.
 
If it is showing as a raw disk have you tried recovering the partition table first? I've had some success in the past with restoring a deleted/corrupted partition table to regain access to files. I can't remember the name of the command line tools as they were on a boot CD but there's partition recovery software you can use from windows also, I think EaseUs do a trial version of a partition recovery tool.
 
StephenLawUK said:
If it is showing as a raw disk have you tried recovering the partition table first? I've had some success in the past with restoring a deleted/corrupted partition table to regain access to files. I can't remember the name of the command line tools as they were on a boot CD but there's partition recovery software you can use from windows also, I think EaseUs do a trial version of a partition recovery tool.
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I have nothing to lose so I'll try that, thanks.

The previous software may have already tried that but I'll google easeus and see what comes up :)
 
EaseUs was the only app that found anything on the drive, managed to recover a few bits and bobs using it, nothing significant though. chkdsk also fails.

I appreciate the suggestions, I tried them all but I think a Viking burial is approaching...
 
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