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Harddrive died

Postby Wakka Wah » Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:06 pm

I have an external seagate 500 gig hard drive that just randomly started saying its corrupted and i cant access it. Wondering what steps I can take to recover the data on this drive (be it reformatting and finding a program to find the old files) or what be it. It has alot of movies and tv shows on it that I would like to be able to recover.

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Postby dun dun dun... chips » Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:48 pm

do you have access to a linux box?

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Postby Wakka Wah » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:03 pm

no, but i could setup a knoppix or something similar if need be.

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Postby Darkfoxx » Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:34 pm

Excellent recovery software if you can actually access the drive from Windows:
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

If you want this for free, send me a PM.

If you can't access from Windows, then you'd have to try from linux.
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Postby Wakka Wah » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:10 pm

yea i cant access at all, it just says error on the E drive corrupted data blah blah blah, and when i go to properties it says there is zero used spaced and zero free space.

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Postby dun dun dun... chips » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:50 pm

id suggest starting up a linux of some flavor boot cd and see what it thinks. im sure that there will be some program to help you, ill have to dig around in my archives to find one...


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