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Exernal HD Data

Berne

Berne

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Hi,
Anyone got ideas on best software for External Hard Drive failure? HD is Buffalo USB Book type, 320GB. Device Manger is showing but not in My Computer?

Usually after loading Buffalo CD popup asks for password and that was all required, but now its as if the drive is being used for the first time, asking for setup password ect?

Costs are a factor, I see upwards of 100.00 pounds, very expensive.
I have a free programe which could recover the data if it could only see the drive shown in My computer ? I could format the drive using Buffalo CD software but surely that would end all data on the drive , but it would allow the recovery progame to see the drive???? Would the recovery programe be able to dig out the data recently formated?

All good advice welcome,

Berne
 
There is a program called File Scavenger that works. As long as it shows up in device manager. It does not cost anything to scan but costs $50 to recover the files.

This program really does work. I just had to use it recently. Just be prepared, it does take a long time to scan. For me it took almost 2 hours and that was an internal drive.

Here is the link:
http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
 
Hi,
Great to get all replies thank you. Disaster on my most recent data recovery attempt, the OLD drive had been severly virused or other ...anyhow all data lost to the cyborg.

Good Tip: If possible. replace all drives after four years....( from the experts )...costly, yes!, but what price your years of work, pleasure and other?

Berne:sneaky:
 
Berne said:
Hi,
Great to get all replies thank you. Disaster on my most recent data recovery attempt, the OLD drive had been severly virused or other ...anyhow all data lost to the cyborg.

Good Tip: If possible. replace all drives after four years....( from the experts )...costly, yes!, but what price your years of work, pleasure and other?

Berne:sneaky:
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if its showing up in device manager why not assign a drive letter to it? You are running your system with a deadly file virus on it which is busy overwriting all your data. So that means you cant backup any executable files and I can bet you for sure it already made itself resident on the external. Do you have access to another pc where you can get a couple off small applications to try and kill its startup process and safe your data so you can clean it first, then back up then redo the os?
 
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