HELP
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Topic: HELP
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Subject: HELP
Date Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:12pm
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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  ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
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Posted By: levyte357
Date 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. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Date 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  ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
Posted By: levyte357
Date 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 ? ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Date 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 ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
Posted By: levyte357
Date 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. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
TRE4U2NV wrote:Posted By: andycw
Date Posted: 23 July 2012 at 2:43pm
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How old are the drives? Could be some bad sectors. ------------- No Bass No Fun |
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Date 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 ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
Posted By: mini-mad
Date 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. |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 23 July 2012 at 5:37pm
+1 All hail, Genghis Trev, torturer of HDs.  ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 2:33am
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lol HELP all offers no matter how crazy ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
Posted By: audiomik
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 3:09am
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Download an iso image of http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php/" rel="nofollow - 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 ------------- Warning! May contain Nuts plus springs, washers, screws, etc, etc. |
Posted By: mykey-
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 5:33am
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Posted By: mini-mad
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 7:44am
thats the dumbest thing iv ever heard!!!!!.... its the moon gods you prey to.. duh!! lol
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Posted By: mykey-
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 9:45am
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I get confused with all these GODs lol he could always sit on the pyramid butt naked.......that should cheer him up  ------------- BbbBBRAAAAPppBBBBbgushhhhhhhhssshhhhhGrAbRAAAAAAPPPPPp = Dubstep |
Posted By: slaz
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 11:04pm
First open up the partition manager ("my computer" -> manage -> disk management. Check whats happening. Could be that the disks have just lost their drive letter assignments. .... can happen with USB devices. There's a little util - forgot whats its called - USBXXXX anyway ..... will clear out all the USB mass storage device enumerations .... all HD's and memory sticks etc. will get re-detected (found new hardware") ...... might just fix your problem. Otherwise yeah use some kind of Linux to go take a look. ------------- REMEMBER....POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS SHOULD BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON |
Posted By: shagnasty
Date Posted: 24 July 2012 at 11:26pm
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Personally, get a a 2TB SATA HDD, unplug your PC HDD, plug in 2 TB, load win XP (Win 7 may be quick as you don't need a key) then remove both USB drives from their caddies...
Download hiren's boot CD, burn ISO to CD or load onto USB stik...
Connect both un-usb'd HDDs to the sata ports on your main board and boot into XP, then stuff the hiren's CD (or Stick) in and run "get-bak-Fat32" or "get-back-NTFS" wait....
if the HDDs aren't physically shafted that you can recover data sector by sector even if the FAT table is trashed...
You need the 2TB to dump your recovered files to....
Use a clean load of XP just in case you have some dum virus blocking the storage detection bit...
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