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Harddrive died
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:06 pm
by Wakka Wah
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:48 pm
by dun dun dun... chips
do you have access to a linux box?
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:03 pm
by Wakka Wah
no, but i could setup a knoppix or something similar if need be.
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:34 pm
by Darkfoxx
Excellent recovery software if you can actually access the drive from Windows:
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htmIf you want this for free, send me a PM.
If you can't access from Windows, then you'd have to try from linux.
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:10 pm
by Wakka Wah
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:50 pm
by dun dun dun... chips
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...