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TRE4U2NV 
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HELP both my hardrives [external ] have both disappeared from my computer tried to restore to earlier time
not working windows xp sp3 tell whats gone wrong and how to fix it please T
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levyte357
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:16pm |
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Do you have alternate pc?
Connect them to that, confirm if data still present and in order. |
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TRE4U2NV
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:23pm |
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They show up in device manager just not in my computer
on my xp machine and my shiny win7 but cant get into them
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levyte357
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:24pm |
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Erm, did machine crash or was rebooted, with them attached, without being shutdown first ?
If you're lucky, maybe Partition tables are bit garbled, but data still readable from Linux. Is your "protection" suitable, and up to date ? Edited by levyte357 - 23 July 2012 at 2:26pm |
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:27pm |
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havent got foggyist went out last night left it running came back it was still running minus two drive letters
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levyte357
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:34pm |
Where the external drives formatted as NTFS or FAT32 ? If you have secondary pc, possibly an idea to retrieve hard disk from external case, open up pc, and connect secondary data cable/power cables directly to drive, to confirm if drive or external drive case malfunction. Edited by levyte357 - 23 July 2012 at 2:36pm |
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:43pm |
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How old are the drives?
Could be some bad sectors.
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TRE4U2NV
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 3:18pm |
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think they were fat32 had them about 1year and a half
one is a wd 500gb the others a seagate 1tb got a freeagent running fine and a seagate expansion running ok
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 3:57pm |
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unplug em... wrap them up tight in a bin linner so theres more or less no air, with the psu...a nd chuck them in the freezer for 30mins...
get them back out plug them in and see what happens. no its not a nuts idea, iv done it a number of time and has worked more often then not. externals dont sleep and driving them at 100% for a few hours all by them sevles and then buggering off out isnt a nice way to treat you hdd's... give it a try, it wont damage them... dispite the amount of abuse im about to get. |
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Posted: 23 July 2012 at 5:37pm |
+1 All hail, Genghis Trev, torturer of HDs.  Edited by levyte357 - 23 July 2012 at 5:46pm |
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Posted: 24 July 2012 at 2:33am |
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lol HELP all offers no matter how crazy
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Posted: 24 July 2012 at 3:09am |
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Download an iso image of the GParted Disk Utilities live Boot CD and make a CD of it.
Boot your PC directly from the GParted CD (not into Windoze) and with the external Hard disks connected. Follow carefully the on-screen instructions to find your partitions on the external drives. There are a number of different utilities within this CD to either test your Hard Drives, recover lost partitions or files within corrupted partitions. This Software is quite 'powerful' so be careful! If the USB links fail, then try removing the Hard Disks from the external boxes and connect them directly into your PC. You can disconnect your Windoze Hard Drive when you do this as it is completely unused for the GParted Software to work on your other drives. Good luck! Mik Edited by audiomik - 24 July 2012 at 3:11am |
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