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I was transferring a 2GB file from my desktop to an external hard drive. But I accidentally restarted the computer. Now I'm getting crc errors and I can't access what's on the hard drive. Windows 7 always says that I format the drive. Is there any way I can fix this, using a free software. What do I do recover the data?Please help,

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you can perform checkdisk on that drive or perform a low level format.

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is it possible to recover the data once I get this kind of errors? – Ieyasu Sawada Aug 5 '11 at 11:25
yes you can recover with tools like easyrecovery, recover my files etc. – Asghar Aug 5 '11 at 11:26
If it is asking him to format, it is not showing him any partition, or drive letter. You can't run chkdsk with no letter. – KCotreau Aug 5 '11 at 12:39
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I do not know if you can fix the disk, but depending on how valuable the data is, File Scavenger would recover it, but the version you would need is $49.

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

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