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FUTUREPRO
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_ 		29. April 2010 @ 21:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Here's my problem.

The USB port on the enclosure of my external hard drive broke off so I replaced the enclosure. I had to quick format the drive in order to try and recover the data I had on it previously. I used PC inspector and once the data was recovered I am left with many files that say "clusterxxxxxx.xxx" none of which are the movies, mp3 or documents I had on the external drive. Are these "clusters" part of the files? How do I use these clusters to recover the files?

Note: I have not overwritten anything on the drive. All I have done is quick-formatted it so that PC inspector could attempt to recover the data (at least that is what I thought I needed to do)

Any help is appreciated :)
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ddp
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_ 		29. April 2010 @ 23:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
why did you do a quick format for?
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FUTUREPRO
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_ 		29. April 2010 @ 23:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
 why did you do a quick format for?
Because when I tried recovering data before quick-formatting it didn't work. So then I looked at the options in the program and one said to recover data after a quick-format so I decided to try that.

I'm now trying with Disk Getor Data Recovery.
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_ 		30. April 2010 @ 00:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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