Data recovery... Please help me.

[mjohn1378]

I am running vista 32 home premium and I have a removeable disk that is asking to be formatted before use.

Only problem... This is a disk with about 450GB of data on it that I have been using for backup.

What can I do to get the data back from the disk?

 

[Bigbacon]

doesit make any noises?

try it in a different port or computer?

 

[mjohn1378]

Drive sounds to be operating normal.
It gives me the same message on another pc.

 

[drywilly]

I've had this happen before with windows partitions. I assume the drive was originally formatted with NTFS?

As long as your drive is physically good, then Getbackdata for NTFS will find your files, there is even a free trial. I've tried several data recovery programs and this is the best bang for the buck. Full version is only $79. http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

Good luck!

 

[mjohn1378]

thanks for the help

 

[Monkey34]

Zero Assumption Recovery

Try it, love it.

 

[engiNURD]

I've used GetDataBack... works great.