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Oakley28
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_ 		11. July 2006 @ 08:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Right, so the other day i was using my computer and nothing was wrong, my 2 hard drives (both Maxtor) are a 40Gb in which i have Windows XP and all my software, and a 200Gb which i store all my media on, music, films etc....

Yesterday i turned my computer on and although it recognised by Hard Drives the 200Gb had nothing on it and apprently its not been formatted??? WTF!!!!!

System restore doesn't do anything and im all out of ideas, theres alot of things on that Hard Drive that mean alot to me, is there any way of gettin it back????

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Oakley28
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DoubleDwn
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_ 		11. July 2006 @ 08:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Get PC Inspector.
http://www.download.com/PC-Inspector-File-Recovery/3000-2248_4-10...

It has worked for me several times. As long as you did not tell Windows to Format the drive, you should still be able to recover some stuff. Not to kick you while you are down, but I would never use a Maxtor drive again. I have had sooooo many fail at the office, and I got fed up with dealing with Maxtors RMA dept. Personally, I think they are junk. I stick with WD, or even Hitatchi.
Hope this works for you.

~Rich
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Oakley28
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_ 		11. July 2006 @ 09:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
cheers i got the program, and i can see the contents of the drive there just doesnt seem to be anything in the folders :( ???
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Oakley28
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_ 		11. July 2006 @ 09:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i get this error when it tries to search

error no.23
drv:129 LBA:1991172053 blocks 1

Abort, Retry Or Ignore?

Neither work
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Oakley28
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_ 		12. July 2006 @ 09:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
come on, someone must know something .... please ! ! ! !
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janrocks
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_ 		12. July 2006 @ 09:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Looks like a failed sector0. Very common with Maxtor. Try it on a different PC, maybe it's disagreed with the drive control chip on your mobo, but I doubt it..
Try some other data recovery tools before binning it. Acronis true image is quite good at dragging data off dead drives. There are lots of data rescue type things but if the drive won't initialise properly then...

Try this http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

and maybe this http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

at a push http://www.easeus.com/

Depends if you want to pay or not...

(I'd format it back to front and use it for something, but I'm a cheap and dirty linux babe)

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