- Jul 29, 2003
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Right after I decided to get a DVD burner for back-up, my 80 gig external WD USB 2.0 drive, with all my media on it, crashed. When I plug it in, windows either does not recognize it and becomes extremely slow or does see it, but tells me it needs to be formatted. The red read light on the drive goes on and off steadily, as if its trying to start reading, but cannot. So, I was wondering:
1) Could the case at all be an issue? Meaning, does it make sense to waste time on buying a new USB 2.0 case and swapping them? I don't have a PC here, just a laptop, so I can't test it without a case.
2) VirtualLab demo version did recognize all of the files that were on the drive. However, its just doing this based on the FAT table, correct? So, is it possible that it can see where the files should be, but the files themselves are inaccesible?
3) What data recovery software do you recommend I use? It seems that data recovery companies are ridiculously expensive, so I doubt I could afford to ship it off to them. Are there any other options?
Thanks, I know this is a very typical problem, but first time for me... ;(
1) Could the case at all be an issue? Meaning, does it make sense to waste time on buying a new USB 2.0 case and swapping them? I don't have a PC here, just a laptop, so I can't test it without a case.
2) VirtualLab demo version did recognize all of the files that were on the drive. However, its just doing this based on the FAT table, correct? So, is it possible that it can see where the files should be, but the files themselves are inaccesible?
3) What data recovery software do you recommend I use? It seems that data recovery companies are ridiculously expensive, so I doubt I could afford to ship it off to them. Are there any other options?
Thanks, I know this is a very typical problem, but first time for me... ;(