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O/T Hard drive recovery

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airtj

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I have a usb adapter for hard drives and I'm trying to recover files off of it. The computer wants me to format the drive, but that would erase the files that I'm trying to recover. Is their a free program that can recover these important files?
 
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.
 
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
 
Thank you for all the suggestions. I was able to pull the disk drive up by trying a different USB port on the laptop.
 
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.
 
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