Seagate ext harddrive, Bad disk. Need to Recover.


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    Windows 7 32 bit
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    Seagate ext harddrive, Bad disk. Need to Recover.


    A couple weeks ago my USB External harddrive got unplugged and when i plugged it back in, it asked me to Format it. It game me a "2HC015KJ" Error code. Its 500GB but now appears as 2000GB. Ive tried to use Partiton Wizard 7, but when doing a quick scan for a couple days, it was only at 163608 sectors, and still at 0%.
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  2. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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    Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
    You might try this,
    Emergency Kit - save your files from a dead OS
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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Will this work for a USB Ext Harddrive?
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  4. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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    Hi,
    Yes it should be able to read anything connected to the computer if it hasn't gone completely dead that is.
    Worth a shot Linux can see things windows might not be able to.
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Sorry, just saw this reply. Is there a way to restore the Ext Harddrive with that solution?
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  6. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #6

    Hi,
    First you should see if Linux can read the external drive then we can see about the next step.
    We might need to transfer the data to another drive/ large flash drive and format/ clean the original after running some test on it.
    Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free
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  7. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Hey, I finally got to try Linux. And it didnt appear. So I tried Mounting it and it said "cant read superblock"
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  8. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #8

    Hi,
    Bummer might need to get ninja help,
    Hope I don't get in trouble but you might post here :/
    Linux Mint Forums ? View forum - Main Edition Support

    Some really good people there might be able to give some gpart or magic part commands to enter in terminal
    Let us know via post a link to the question here :)
    Good luck
    Cheers.
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  9. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Alright thank you!!
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