Data Recovery

[m8nkey]

I returned from 2 weeks interstate to discover Vista no longer recognised my brand new secondary hard drive. When I tried to access the drive it simply told me it wasn't formatted. I couldn't access it through other computers on my home network either.

I have no idea how my hard drive was erased. My girlfriend used it while I was gone but it's unlikely she inadvertantly erased it. When I returned the drive wasn't even formatted, just completely fucked.

I read that a recent Vista update has caused hard drive problems in "unique circumstances" so that's a possible cause. In the mean time I'm suspicious of the drive and not relying on it to store anything important.

Anyone know of some good data recovery software?

[-HP-]

Lesson #1 no not let a women thouch you'r puter!

Lesson #2 do not use vista.

Lesson #3 backup your shit to another HDD or DVD's now and then...

Oh well, stuff like this happens, it happened to me to a 250GB SATA-I HDD, one day I just turned on the PC and windows didn't even recognized any driver. I believe I created a thread about this topic a while back, try searching for it, or go to http://www.downloads.com and search for a recovery apps, there's thousands of them, and I'm sorry to tell you but I never stumbled upon a single one that actually worked.

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there are some pc stores that also specialize in hdd recovery but im told thats pretty expensive.

i lost all my data 3 days ago when my hdd just broke. i bought a new 250 gb sata yesterday and after a bitching night of no sleep i finally managed to install it (im used to ide shit)

succes man

[Cybbe]

m8nkey, I had something similar happen to me, so before you do something, try to re-import the drive in your disk management. It worked for me.

I didn't need to reformat it, either. It was simply stated as an unknown drive, and when I imported it(or whatever it was I did. Can't remembe rwhat it's called), it worked fine again.

Worth a shot, I guess

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also:

spinrite (costs money but im sure you could borrow it)

[m8nkey]

":2wdbrw40]Lesson #1 no not let a women thouch you'r puter!

Lesson #2 do not use vista.

Lesson #3 backup your shit to another HDD or DVD's now and then...

lol, so true, particularly #1 though I don't think it had anything to do with it on this occasion. I keep several backups of anything really important though this was one of my backup drives so lost a bit too.

m8nkey, I had something similar happen to me, so before you do something, try to re-import the drive in your disk management. It worked for me.

I didn't need to reformat it, either. It was simply stated as an unknown drive, and when I imported it(or whatever it was I did. Can't remembe rwhat it's called), it worked fine again.

Worth a shot, I guess

I had to do that when I initially installed the drive, didn't think of checking it when this problem arose though. I've already re-formatted it too. If the drive dies again and I can't work out why I'll just turf it.

I'll look into Spinrite KT, thanks