Recover my files from External HD?

4 Comments

1. Lea says:

   November 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   You can try to recover your data with asoftech data recovery software:

   http://www.asoftech.com/adr/

   It uses unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect.
2. Mast says:

   November 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   Hi Celtic,

   I just posted the following answer on more or less the same question asked here:
   (http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111107215145AAgPq21)

   If you like my answer please give some thumbs up or make it ‘best answer’.

   Thank you!

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   First of all.. DON’T USE your hard disk any more. And DON’T install any recover software on it! This might lead to you overwriting the files you want to recover.

   It is important to keep your disk untouched until you were able to recover your files.

   This is how I work;

   1. Make a clone of your hard disk
   2. Try recovering from the cloned version

   I use a tool called clonezilla to clone disks: http://clonezilla.org/

   3. Find file recovery software (you can use: http://www.download.com for this)

   I use the auslogics file recovery software to do the trick (http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/file-recovery. You can use the software for free for the first few weeks)

   4. Install the software on a disk OTHER than your external hard disk
   5. Run the software
   6. Recover the files you want to recover but select a destination OTHER than your external hard disk

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3. Nicole says:

   November 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   If the drive can be seen by device manager but not under My Computer,right click my computer and go to "Manage",select disk manager.
   You should see your harddrive either lister as foreign or not initialized. If foreign, it will give you an option to import and is not initialized, it will allow you to initialize it.
   This will hand over drive management to the OS and you should be able to see it in My Computer.
   Then you canuse data recovery software to retrieve your data off it.For recovery software,I have a good one on my computer that can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to drives crash, physical damage,system sabotage, virus attack etc.You can ownload it and scan your hard drive for free to preview whether your files can be recovered.By the way,it will show you the file name,type,date and size of your files and thumbnails for your pictures that it found on your drive.You can get it here:
   http://www.any-data-recovery.com/product/datarecoveryprofessional.htm
   After you recover your data,you can format it to check out whether it can be fixed.
4. Emily W says:

   November 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   Primarily developed for restoring files from windows (FAT and NTFS) partitions Kernel for Windows Data Recovery is a professional data recovery utility that can retrieve the deleted or lost files, folders from Windows partitions (FAT & NTFS).