[Help] My external hard disk got corrupted!

hoodlum · #1 June 7, 2009, 03:14 PM

I want to recover the lost data! how can i?

Zeeshan · #2 June 7, 2009, 04:19 PM

Let it go my friend....lt it go.

hoodlum · #3 June 7, 2009, 04:46 PM

noooooooo

goru · #4 June 7, 2009, 04:51 PM

As GB said, let it go. You can always download more pr0n.

goru · #5 June 7, 2009, 04:59 PM

Serious response: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

There's some more (non-free) tools like R-Studio and OnTrack Easy Recovery... but experience tells me if testdisk can't do it, those can't either...

Experience also tells me that if there is some really important data on there that you desperately need, better not mess with it yourself (and further damage the disk) and use professional recovery services (some will give you free estimate, but the better services will charge you an analysis fee). But then, if you valued the data so much, you should have had backups in the first place.

Murad · #6 June 7, 2009, 05:08 PM

You can always recover the data using a recovery software. you can find them in download.com. It happened with my internal hard drive but I got all back using one of these softwares.

Nocturnal · #7 June 7, 2009, 08:47 PM

backup!!

**Nasif** · #8 June 7, 2009, 10:27 PM

As long as sector 0 of your drive is readable; you have some hope. If the crash is file system related then you have better chance of recovery; on the other hand if the crash is related to physical sector damage then you will be unfortunately out of luck.

Orpheus · #9 June 7, 2009, 11:41 PM

The only s in the title i read as c, am I corrupted in the head? I really need help.

Zeeshan · #10 June 7, 2009, 11:49 PM

Alien · #11 June 9, 2009, 11:15 PM

U can try Tuneup Software which has Tuneup Undelete, dunno how effective it is with external drives. I managed to fish out few things i deleted accidently from my USB.

AFAIK, recovering stuff from external drives are harder than your local hard disk in ur pc.

hoodlum · #12 June 10, 2009, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goru
Serious response: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

There's some more (non-free) tools like R-Studio and OnTrack Easy Recovery... but experience tells me if testdisk can't do it, those can't either...

Experience also tells me that if there is some really important data on there that you desperately need, better not mess with it yourself (and further damage the disk) and use professional recovery services (some will give you free estimate, but the better services will charge you an analysis fee). But then, if you valued the data so much, you should have had backups in the first place.

testdisk was helpful..i could recover few of the files but not all of dem...