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Data recovery from HDD (accidental mistake)
I've unintentionally damaged my external 2TB HDD which is also my warehouse of all the data I have. It was done using this guide: http://www.plop.at/en/winusbinstall.html#s2 . There in the situation 2 ...
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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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SOLVED - data loss on a external HDD? [closed]
I use an external 3TB HDD to store some documents and either a) I don't know what's real and dream anymore, b) someone sneaked into my room and deleted some files or c) some files actually disappeared ...
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My HDD fell from the table (but was saved by the cable). Now it does not spin up. Could it be the PCB? [closed]
I had a external 2.5" 1 TB HDD connected to my laptop via USB3. The HDD was pushed off the table and was saved by the cable (left dangling). However, now the HDD does not spin up.
I've tried another ...
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Western Digital My Passport 1TB HDD Failed - Any last ditch things I can do?
So two days ago now my USB 2.0/3.0 external hard drive would not come up in Windows. When I plug the drive in it spins up and Windows recognizes that a USB drive was plugged in (I get the sound, but ...
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Trying to rescue data from WD My Book Studio II, raid 0
For a friend I'm trying to recover data from a Western Digital My Book Studio II external disk drive enclosure in raid 0 mode.
At first I tried to rescue the data under OSX, the OS used by the ...
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External hard drive unplugged while running iTunes…Corrupted files
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back ...
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What could I use to recover lost/damaged files from a Mac hard drive? [closed]
We frequently use the software GetDataBack (for FAT32 and for NTFS) to recover overwritten or lost files, sometimes from a faulty hard drive.
But is there something like this for Mac hard drives? ...
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recover data after using dd command
Hi I have an Iomega HD for mac. I was writing a ubuntu server image to another drive but accidentally selected my 500GB Iomega with my files on it. The command I ran was:
sudo dd ...
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Unable to open WD external hard drive
I have a 500 GB WD external drive with 3 partitions on it. When I run a disk check, the computer shuts down. After that, I can't access the single partition I have important data on. When I try to ...
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What tests can you do on a hard drive that was recently bumped to see if it is ok?
What tests can you do on an external hard drive that was recently bumped to see if it is ok?
A SMART check perhaps? Filesystem check (Linux fsck)?
Is there anything further you might suggest?
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External Hard Drive reformatting and data
I have an 100Gb external HD with bunch of stuff that was originally formatted to windows XP.
I now have a mac and want to re-format the external to work with my Mac but dont want to lose the valuable ...
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How do I recover data from a HD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover lost/inacessible data from my storage device?
Today I tried to read an external HD, and it was dead. The only way it could be re-detected by the system ...
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Recover data or repair partition from a 1TB external HD used by a Mac
I have an external 1TB HD that was previously formatted with NTFS and then given to a Mac user who, probably, formatted it with HFS+, filled it with data, and then ... BOOM. Nobody can tell what ...
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1answer
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SpinRite on USB drive
I had a laptop that one day stopped booting. I took the hard disk (WD, SATA, 320GB) out and tried it in a USB caddy and tried to connect it to my desktop PC. It behaves erratically, constantly ...
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Changing the Owner of a folder back to SYSTEM
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This is what I get when I try to open my C:/Documents and Settings.Although I am the owner of the computer I was denied permissions to open the folder. So, I changed the owner of Documents ...
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Mounting a USB drive that doesn't automatically install in Windows 7
I have an external usb hard drive enclosure. I'm attaching some very old IDE drives to from an old computer to see if there are any photographs or things worth saving on them.
I plug the enclosure in ...
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Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5TB - Faint Beeping but not recognised
I have a FreeAgent XTreme 1500GB (eSATA, Firewire400 and USB 2.0) external hard disk.
The hard drive I have is the same as displayed in the image at ...
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External WD drive not recognized
I have a friends WD hard drive, he has had it for about 8 years. I know, a long time. After recently picking it up after not using for a while, it seems that it will not recognize on the multiple ...
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Recovering damaged external hard disk by installing internally
I had a 1TB Western Digital (My book series) 3.5" USB3. One day, the SATA to USB3 converter board was damaged and has not worked since.
I decided to open the cover and use the HDD as an internal ...
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Dropped WD External Harddisk, now it's shown as “Not initialized”
So, the WD my passport external harddisk is dropped, and after that, the computer is unable to read it anymore. I was hopping if I can just find another case to try if the harddisk is still readable, ...
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Hitachi SimpleDrive mini not recognised
My Hitachi SimpleDrive mini USB HDD, 500 GB, is not being recognized on my Windows 7 machine. It's LEDs flash with a delay, continuously. After I plug it out, Windows asks me to format it.
I have a ...
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ownership of hard drive recoveery of files Windows 7
Here is the issue. I have an old laptop that died that was running xp. I now have a win 7 laptop. I need to get the files off the old drive. Win 7 will not let me take ownership of the drive. I can ...
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How to make hard disc data unreachable/ unreadable to any expert analyst? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Securely erasing all data from a hard drive
I have a hard disc and contains very important information. I have erased all the data but there are chances of retrieving it ...
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how to retrieve data from partially formatted disk? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data loss from accidental quick format
I format my external HDD by mistake and cancel the formatting process within 2 to 3 seconds. but now, HDD is not opening. ...
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Suggestions for data recovery from an external hard-disk
Recently when I was installing Ubuntu on my Laptop, I had an external 500 GB SeaGate hard-drive attached to the Laptop. During the installation setup Ubuntu asked where I would like to have my ...
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WD Elements External HDD not showing up its drive even though its recognized?
I've got a 320GB WD Elements HDD that when plugged in shows up in device manager but it doesn't show its drive in 'MyComputer'. I've tried on several computers and still no luck. Any ideas as to what ...
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1answer
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IOMEGA BlackBelt 1TB 2.5" External Firewire Drive won't spin up - Contains 1 big (950 GB) True Crypt Volume [closed]
I've got a 1TB Iomega 2.5" FireWire Drive. The drive contains important data which is contained in a 950GB TrueCrypt volume. Format is MAC OS Extended (Journaled). I'm mainly connecting it on a ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to repair corrupted hard disk?
I have a 500 GB Seagate portable hard disk. It was partitioned with 5 partitions, each of 100 GB. 3 partitions are working properly, but 2 partitions are corrupted. When I plug the hard disk into my ...
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Recovering data from an external hard drive
I have a WD Elements 2TB hard drive (formatted NTFS). I accidentally kicked out the USB cable while writing data to the disk, and now I can't access most of the data. Although this was ostensibly my ...
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Ways to recover data from external hard drive
I use an external hard disk for backup of my mac with time machine (OS 10.5.8).
I have made something wrong and I have found important folders in the recycler bin. These folders come from external ...
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Harddrive fell; caught in mid-air; won't spin up
I have a SimpleTech 1TB external USB hard drive. I recently backed up my entire system to it, then formatted and installed Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Before restoring my data from the external ...
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IOMEGA 500GB hard disk data reccovery
Last year by November I bought an IOMEGA 500GB Prestige hard disk. Yesterday, unfortunately the hard disk fell down from my table. After that incident, when I connect my disk, Windows asks me to ...
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Retrieving data off my broken hard drive, what can I do?
My Seagate Freeagent external hard drive broke the other day. I accidentally pulled on the chord with my leg and it fell on my desk. It then started beeping and was no longer recognizable by my ...
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How to connect Western Digital “My passport” using other means?
I have a Western Digital My Passport 500Gb external Harddrive where the USB connection on the drive seems to have worn out. I am trying to retrieve the data for a friend.
Here is an image of the ...
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Recovering data from external hard drive with hard drive enclosure
So I spilled water on my WD Essential 1.5 TB hard drive. I think it is just the enclosure that is affected so I bought a Rocketfish hard drive enclosure.
Now when I connect it to the computer it ...
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Accessing 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT on different computer?
I have a 3000 GB Seagate Barracuda XT sata drive. It originally came in an external enclosure with a removable USB 3.0 interface as part of the Seagate GoFlex series of drives. When using this ...
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Need to recover an accidentally formatted (i.e. wiped out) hard drive. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover folders from formatted drive
I accidentally erased my 500GB external hdd, and I desperately need to recover the data. If I read correctly, a quick format ...
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Copying from External Hard Drive problems
I am trying to copy some files from my External Hard Drive back onto my PC using Windows 7.
Some files copy with no error or issue, but there are a few files that refuse to copy and I get a cannot ...
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SEAGATE HD UNMOUNTED DAEMON INHIBITED
I've got a Seagate HD 888GB here which I use with a Macbook Pro. This week it stopped working.
It is shown as "unmounted" in Disk Utility. I tried it on Windows 7 as well but it's not working there ...
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How much time until an unused hard drive loses its data?
Do you guys know how much time needs to pass until the data stored on a hard drive starts to degrade?
To keep the data intact for long periods of time, I heard you need to periodically rewrite it on ...
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Accidentally changed partition type while trying to get a ext/luks encrypted linux partition to mount under windows 7 x64
As the title suggests, I was fiddling with ext2 volume manager trying to get my unencrypted removable ext/luks drive to show up under windows. I accidentally went to 'change partition type' and ...
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Data recovery on a data HDD (no OS)
I am helping a family member with a dead hard disk. It is a seagate 200Gb 3.5" HDD in one of those old-school external enclosures. The problem was that windows failed to detect the hard disk when ...
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How to recover data after Low Level formatting of WD 500gb External HDD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data loss from accidental quick format
I have lost everything on my Passport WD 500gb HDD,and no,there was no back up done :(
I've heard of people who have gone ...
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repair/recovery tool for Western Digital Elements (1TB)
My Hard Disk Drive just got corrupted due to electricity fluctuation. When I plug my Western Digital Elements, It ask me if I want to format it or not... I can't see my files or even the capacity of ...
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External WD hard drive unrecognised and making odd noises (hum of death?)
My 500GB WD external HDD was working fine a few months ago, and I've just plugged it in again.
It is now unrecognised by my OSX, Ubuntu and Windows boxes, and doesn't seem to spin up when connected. ...
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My hard drive seems to have died, what happened?
I have a Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB SATA hard disk (WD15EADS) that seems to have died, but I'm not sure if it's a goner or not. I've been using the drive in an old Iomega external ESATA ...
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External Hard Drive needs format
I recently bought a new ADATA external Classic hard drive 500 GB. I have transferred around 29 GB of data on it till I install my new Windows 7 operating system. After some work with the hard drive ...
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Bad HD and robocopy
After my HD gave me crc errors I wanted to copy one drive to another and picked up a new 1TB hd.
I am using the command robocopy G: J: /MIR /COPYALL /ZB
First it tried copying the file a few times ...
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Laptop crashes when connecting to external harddisk
I recently had a problem with my laptop. when I booted up the machine, I would get a SMART failure error message and when I pressed F1 to continue, it would take a very long time to boot and it would ...
