Urgent!! Help needed to recover lost data

[SusanHC]

When you plug the drive in, does Windows make the "dum-dum" sound (new hardware found)?

It takes quite a while before a low doodle-dum sound comes thru, but it was not the same sound as when "new hardware found" sounds! it makes the sound when "unknown device" appears in the device manager, when I unplug it sounds de-dum just like when you unplug other usb!

is this significant?

susan

 

[zone23]

Is this been resolved? Its should have been days ago.

 

[oystercatcher]

Your 500 GB external hard drive connects how - usb or firewire?
Connect the drive to any working computer that supports the interface.
For data recovery I have used testdisk it was very effective

TestDisk Download - CGSecurity

 

[Adrian]

Hello all

Here as promised - my report

its rather long - sorry!

Thanks for your patience


Susan

Susan, as I suspected. The Handy Drive was damaged in the fall.

 

[SusanHC]

To everyone who has been trying to help me to let you know the drive has been taken from its casing and installed into a laptop but it could not be read so it would seeem it is knackered!!

Thanks so much for all your efforts to help me - I really do appreciate it .

 

[SomeITGuy]

Is the data important enough to go to a recovery company?

 

[SusanHC]

The data is important but I backed up more than I realised so I have not lost as much as first thought.

Being a 500GB harddrive almost 3/4 full, even if it were possible, I imagine it would cost a vast amoiunt to try and restore.

 

[SusanHC]

i had to admit defeat and accept my hard drive is knackered and it has put in the cupboard for good

thanks to all who tried so hard to help

Susan

 

[Stevy22]

TIM Is right... Its Active@ File Recovery. which can solve this problem for you.... or you do one thing update all your drivers by installing Driver scan

 

[Dwarf]

Hi Susan,

Did you try removing the drive from the enclosure? There should be a standard 3.5 or 2.5 HDD in there, either IDE or SATA.

 

[SusanHC]

Yes I think just about everything possible was tried

 

[PoPPeR]

I do IT support, just got off the phone with someone with the exact same problem. His fix was to power down the laptop, power down the hard drive. Then plug into a computer that's already on. then, power on the external drive...voila

hope your solution is simple as that.

Maybe we're looking at the problem differently.

You mentioned you have 2 500gb drives. I see that your C is 450 and your D is 465. not including that 500gb external drive, does that mean you have 3 ~500gb drives? or did you partitioned 1TB drive into 2 ~500mb partitions?

did you have the external drive connected when you install 7?

 

[topgundcp]

I have used quite a few data recovery software and found that "GetDataBack" is one of the software that is really good & fast. The URL is:
Data Recovery Software Products - Runtime Software Products

You can get a free demo and try it out.

 

[Tepid]

Well the drive can not be read at all.

A. Popper's idea could work. Depending on how it's done. From an External caddy shouldn't pose a problem, never heard of that working. If you plug into a PC as an internal drive while the PC's on, that can work, on occasion, but can also short it out completely.

Data Recovery is going to run you anywhere from 300$ to 2000$ and up, depending on who you send it to and how bad you want it.

 

[topgundcp]

I know, That's what data recovery is for. From what she said, windows still can see the drive but tell her to re-format, that means the MBR table somehow got screwed up, with "GetDAtaBack" I am sure you can recover it.