My strange problem

[silk186]

I'm travelling around and have my hard drived in bubble wrap and plug them into a dongle and power cord to connect them so that i can use all the drives with one plug. Unfortunately I plugged the data IDE cord in upside down once and now I can't seem to read the drive. Now when I plug it in (right side up) the drive is recognized immidiate upon plugging the USB end into the computer but the computer can't read the drive, it shows no data when i look at properties but would let me format. Before I give up and format the drive, losing all my data I'm wondering if there is a way to recover the data. I assume that nothing would have happened to most of the data. I'm expecting this type of human error to be uncommon but I'm hoping that someone will have some advice.

 

[Gorankar]

The drive's partition may have been corrupted. Google "repair partition", you will find lot's of software that may be able to help you. A lot of it, is not free though.

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml about halfway down are the free ones that you can try.

The drive may just be dead, if so I hope the data on there was backed up or not important.

 

[silk186]

All the important data, photos ect are of course backed up on DVDs but the other 200GB of data will still take a ong time to reaquire. Thanks, I hadn't considered searching for partition recovery.