Hello everyone! My hard drive partition was in the middle of being resized, when the electricity went out. Needless to say, I could not log back on to the Windows installation on that hard drive. I logged on to another Windows installation on another hard drive to try to access the data on the corrupted hard drive. The drive gets detected, but I can't access the data, with a prompt requiring the drive to be formatted. The hard drive is physically intact btw. Now the question is..Will I be able to access the data if I purchase an external HDD enclosure? Or just a SATA to USB adapter? I really need to access this hard drive with 320GB of valuable data.. HELP!
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320GB Hard Drive Failure... HELP !
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HardwareGuru
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Dude, sorry to say but you maybe screwed. I had this happen to me to. When I hooked up my 250GB drive as a slave in another computer, it picks up the drive as D drive. But, if I try to click on it, it asks to format. Can you at least right click on the drive?
sirmonkey1985
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the only option you have is to try and use a restore program and hope the data's still there.. other then that.. you are pretty much screwed.. just make sure you do not try to save any data to the drive or try to fix the partition in any way.. otherwise it will overwrite all the data and trying to restore it would become pointless..
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OP your situation is very very similar to what happened to my 250GB drive. I have not done enough to try and retrieve the data on that harddisk. But, I just decided to delete the partition, create a new one and start over again. So.. I reinstalled Windows XP on it and it worked fine for a while. But, I noticed one day the pc could not boot into windows. Soo.. I decided to hookup that 250GB drive as a slave drive in the other pc. Sure enough the same thing. It asks to format the drive again when I double click on it.
HardwareGuru, I probably am screwed as far as being able to log onto that Windows installation. However, I am likely to regain much of the data through data recovery software(free or paid). I wish you'd done that as well for your 250GB hard drive as well!
sirmonkey1985, why exactly do you suggest against fixing the partition in any way? How would it overwrite all the data? I'm only asking you this because I want to hear your side, and also because I was going to use Partition Doctor 3.5 to hopefully "fix" that partition. And yeah, I was going to use some data recovery programs, but I was planning to use that as phase #2.
Thanks guys. Feel free to reply. And that goes to anyone else reading. Good luck !
sirmonkey1985, why exactly do you suggest against fixing the partition in any way? How would it overwrite all the data? I'm only asking you this because I want to hear your side, and also because I was going to use Partition Doctor 3.5 to hopefully "fix" that partition. And yeah, I was going to use some data recovery programs, but I was planning to use that as phase #2.
Thanks guys. Feel free to reply. And that goes to anyone else reading. Good luck !