O/T Hard drive recovery
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alastairmonk
Charter Member, F1CP
Hi,
As I'm sure you know, USB is normally "Plug and play", so if everything is working the drive should be recognised. As the unit is asking you to format it, this suggests that the drive isn't being recognised as a valid drive. Thus the first step should be to get the files "readable".
Possibly the following may be able to help:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools
Cheers,
Alastair
As I'm sure you know, USB is normally "Plug and play", so if everything is working the drive should be recognised. As the unit is asking you to format it, this suggests that the drive isn't being recognised as a valid drive. Thus the first step should be to get the files "readable".
Possibly the following may be able to help:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools
Cheers,
Alastair
Sounds like the drive got corrupted.
You can try one of these two products. Smart Recovery is for USB drives I have never used it. I have used File Recover 4.x many times it works well but I think it is only for normal drives. Either way file recovery should work.
http://www.pcinspector.de/SmartRecovery/info.htm?language=1
http://www.pcinspector.de/Default.htm?language=1 PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery 4.x is a data recovery program
You may want to try the Drive recovery option in File Recovery 4.x it might be what you need. After that I would search for lost files and deleted files.
You can try one of these two products. Smart Recovery is for USB drives I have never used it. I have used File Recover 4.x many times it works well but I think it is only for normal drives. Either way file recovery should work.
http://www.pcinspector.de/SmartRecovery/info.htm?language=1
http://www.pcinspector.de/Default.htm?language=1 PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery 4.x is a data recovery program
You may want to try the Drive recovery option in File Recovery 4.x it might be what you need. After that I would search for lost files and deleted files.
Sunny9850
SOH-CM-2024
Is there an option to cancel the formatting option ?
I have that issue with one of my drives occasionally when it was unplugged a second too early after clicking on the "disconnect" icon.
Once I select cancel on the formatting it works just fine. If you are really worried about the contents I would suggest pulling them off that drive once it is connected to either your HD or another USB drive.
Then format the USB drive and put the files back.
Cheers
Stefan
I have that issue with one of my drives occasionally when it was unplugged a second too early after clicking on the "disconnect" icon.
Once I select cancel on the formatting it works just fine. If you are really worried about the contents I would suggest pulling them off that drive once it is connected to either your HD or another USB drive.
Then format the USB drive and put the files back.
Cheers
Stefan
srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
Dear old not-so-Universal Serial Bus. For all the good things about it, it DOES (with help from Windows) sometimes create that sort of headache. Sometimes a device that has been connected via a certain port will not get recognized if it's re-connected in a different port - my joystick is one of those.
Glad the drive found it's way and you get everything recovered.
Glad the drive found it's way and you get everything recovered.