Just had a text off a mate and apparently he was copying some stuff from an old laptop to an external drive but the laptop gave up the ghost in the middle of copying things over and now when he plugs the external drive into his new laptop it's not recognised and windows wants to format it, any recommendations on what to do or what programs he could try to pull the data off?
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I've had great success using a free open source program called Testdisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
If the files are still there, this will let you list them and copy them across. It uses a command prompt like interface and looks scary but it's pretty straight forward and the website has clear instructions.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
If the files are still there, this will let you list them and copy them across. It uses a command prompt like interface and looks scary but it's pretty straight forward and the website has clear instructions.
I use getdataback
Really good
Got me and family members/friends out of crap when they have deleted there data/formatted or even have problems reading the drive, as long as its not machanically buggered this software should be good for your needs.
Just remember always take the drive out, put it in a machine as a second drive, run software from that machine and run necessary scans.
Really good
Got me and family members/friends out of crap when they have deleted there data/formatted or even have problems reading the drive, as long as its not machanically buggered this software should be good for your needs.
Just remember always take the drive out, put it in a machine as a second drive, run software from that machine and run necessary scans.
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I use getdataback
Really good
Got me and family members/friends out of crap when they have deleted there data/formatted or even have problems reading the drive, as long as its not machanically buggered this software should be good for your needs.
Just remember always take the drive out, put it in a machine as a second drive, run software from that machine and run necessary scans.
Cheers for the recommendations guys.
He only has a laptop and I've not got a desktop setup he can use, would just hooking it up as usual through usb cause a problem?
Was about to suggest those very two..
Usually works better over USB as it doesn't seem to cause as much system instability when there's a duff drive connected as removable storage
Obviously it's slower over USB, but this is the method I use
Usually works better over USB as it doesn't seem to cause as much system instability when there's a duff drive connected as removable storage
Obviously it's slower over USB, but this is the method I use
