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maxtor one touch II 300 external drive

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by nitamac

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Lost power in the middle of a data transfer. Now cannot access all data
on Maxtor. Need partition table information in order to access data.
Does anyone have that information? Or does anyone live in Marin
County CA so I could borrow a drive to read the partition table info?

Any other suggestions??

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by travisdhahn

go to http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

this program was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). I used it to restore my partition table on a External Hard Drive that I left plugged in when I re-imaged my laptop - it was quick and easy - this program comes from a great utility "http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/"

by nitamac

Thanks for such a positive, constructive solution. Will give it
a whirl.

by toughguy000

Seriously, Is that your answer to everything? Not everything needs to be "Formated" if it's broken. A users life of files could be on that hard drive, due to the fact that it is an external backup.

You seriously need to put more thought into your IT solutions. Not everyone is willing to lose data just because of your poor advice.

I thank the other posters for actually getting to the problem.

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