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Hard Drive Enclosure and Data Loss

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John G.

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Recently purchased a hard drive enclosure off NewEgg and put a hard drive in it that had a good amount of media files on it. It worked fine at first, but I left it hooked up to my laptop while the laptop was under battery power-- I'm not sure what happened, but I suspect it had something to do with the power settings on the laptop doing something to the hard drive (which was connected via USB), and when I came back, it had a couple of error messages saying that the drive was unaccessable and that data had been lost. It's hooked up to my desktop right now and when I try to access it it says, "The drive is not accessible, the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." There was 40GB of data on that drive-- is there anything I can do to get at least some of it back?
 
Sounds like the drive died. Can you hear the drive spin up at all?
 
Yup-- have a feeling it would reformat just fine-- don't want to do that though as I want to see if there's a possibility I can get my data back.
 
Reformatted the drive just because no recovery software could access it otherwise. The hard drive is in fact functional. Now I just need a good data recovery program-- any suggestions?

John
 
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