hard drive not recognised

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what can I do? There is 1tb of stuff on it :( :( :(
 
check that it's connected & that the bios can see it - What is drive D? - New? old?
 
I had this on an external 1TB drive. It recognised the drive was there but couldnt access any files. Drive was spinning up

I used something called Testdisk (free) that let me use a dos like command line and it "saw" the volume and I was able to copy files across one at a time. Bit of a pain but my own fault for not having a root folder and just dumping stuff on the drive.
 
Cheers, much obliged, trying it out now :)

Hopefully I won't have to extract the files individually, there are 000,000's of them :/


its taking forever to analyse (currently 1234 out of 121,601)
 
Dosent seem to do a lot :(

However looking under device manager I appear to have 3 drive?

One is called "Config Disk 0 ATA device"


What is this?
 
I think you need to select N when it asks you if you want to search for partitions. Then select P to list files (once you've selected this you can search each folder and select files to copy)

If you have no root folder you may want to find a different program. Testdisk will tell you if they are retrievable but you wont be able to copy them all across in one go if there is no single containing folder
 
Chicken #16 said:
I think you need to select N when it asks you if you want to search for partitions. Then select P to list files (once you've selected this you can search each folder and select files to copy)

If you have no root folder you may want to find a different program. Testdisk will tell you if they are retrievable but you wont be able to copy them all across in one go if there is no single containing folder
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I can't see any such options. Maybe my version is newer?


This is very frustrating :(
 
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