Hello,
I desperately need help. I have a WD my book essential hard drive. The USB of the old case was damaged and I replaced with a new case. But now the drive does not show up in my computer but the safely remove hardware option shows the drive. I read forums and assigned it a drive and created new partitions but did not format the drive. I have tried all sorts of software but it doesn't work. I want my old data back. Please help. Did I make a mistake by making new partition.Can i get my old data back from the drive. HELP!!!!!!
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A generic solution.
Obtain a handy gadget. The general category of these devices is HDD to USB adapter. An example: http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/a-nwtu2nv2spata?utm_source=Google%2BProduct%2BSearch&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Google%2BProduct%2BSearch&src=g
3rd Jul
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RE:- Did I make a mistake by making new partition
Possibly here it all depends on what you where told in Drive Management about this drive. So what did Drive Management tell you was going on here?
As to how to proceed here what is the type of Drive inside the case a IDE/PATA or SATA Drive?
If it's a IDE/PATA you may have a Jumper setting that needs altering the drive should be set to Master not Slave or Cable Select/CS.
If it's a SATA Drive most likely the USB Interface on the old enclosure wasn't faulty but the drive itself was.
Only way to check this for certain is to fit it as a Internal Drive inside a computer and test the Drive with WD's Data Lifeguard for DOS Utility available free here
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&sid=2&lang=en
Download the DOS version and copy it to a suitable Boot Disc that is supported by your system and then test the HDD by booting off the WD Utility Disc and running the test.
if it fails the first test remove it fit to a different computer and retest. If it fails the second test the drive has or is on it's way to Silicon Heaven and if you must recover the Data your best bet is to stop playing with the drive IMMEDIATELY and pack it up and send to a Specialist Data Recovery House who can deal with Dead Drives.
The best place for this that I have ever dealt with is Knroll On Track but I'm sure that there are others who can do things like this.
Col
As to how to proceed here what is the type of Drive inside the case a IDE/PATA or SATA Drive?
If it's a IDE/PATA you may have a Jumper setting that needs altering the drive should be set to Master not Slave or Cable Select/CS.
If it's a SATA Drive most likely the USB Interface on the old enclosure wasn't faulty but the drive itself was.
Only way to check this for certain is to fit it as a Internal Drive inside a computer and test the Drive with WD's Data Lifeguard for DOS Utility available free here
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&sid=2&lang=en
Download the DOS version and copy it to a suitable Boot Disc that is supported by your system and then test the HDD by booting off the WD Utility Disc and running the test.
if it fails the first test remove it fit to a different computer and retest. If it fails the second test the drive has or is on it's way to Silicon Heaven and if you must recover the Data your best bet is to stop playing with the drive IMMEDIATELY and pack it up and send to a Specialist Data Recovery House who can deal with Dead Drives.
The best place for this that I have ever dealt with is Knroll On Track but I'm sure that there are others who can do things like this.
Col
Updated - 3rd Jul
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recover data
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4th Jul
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Recover data from external hard drive?
Hi, Tulika07,
You still have a chance to recover your old data. Please try changing the drive letter again and then reboot your machine.
You still have a chance to recover your old data. Please try changing the drive letter again and then reboot your machine.
4th Jul
0
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hard drive recovery
Hi friend,
You can easily recover your hard drive.Sometimes hard drive get corrupted due to virus attacks, scratches on the hard drive, formatting/reformatting the hard drive or many such reasons.In such situations the file will not get open easily.Hence by using a good hard drive recovery software,you can easily recover your corrupted data and save the files on you computer back.Hard drive recovery software is a very effective tool and provides complete recovery of corrupted data.For more information you can check the link:
http://www.datarecovery-software.net/external-hard-drive.html .You can easily
download the free trial version of the software.
You can easily recover your hard drive.Sometimes hard drive get corrupted due to virus attacks, scratches on the hard drive, formatting/reformatting the hard drive or many such reasons.In such situations the file will not get open easily.Hence by using a good hard drive recovery software,you can easily recover your corrupted data and save the files on you computer back.Hard drive recovery software is a very effective tool and provides complete recovery of corrupted data.For more information you can check the link:
http://www.datarecovery-software.net/external-hard-drive.html .You can easily
download the free trial version of the software.
Updated - 14th May
