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truno

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25. August 2007 @ 13:09

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i heard a clicking noise inside of my Fantom Drives 1 terrabyte hard disk. i restarted it and it loaded up on my computer but when i try to explore it says the drive isn't formatted. i'm not going to format it because this hard drive has over 8 years of downloaded songs movies and games on it. i need help recovering my data. i know it's still in there. thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

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PeaInAPod

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25. August 2007 @ 22:43

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Well to begin with I would keep the drive unplugged. Also I would suggest a professional recovery service. Also they didn't have 1Tb hard-drives 8 years ago did they?!?

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"Some people have no damn sense." - Nephilim, March 27 2007 @ 18:08

ddp

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26. August 2007 @ 18:05

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no they did not.

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FaugYou

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26. August 2007 @ 18:17

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he could have transfered media from old (8 year old) HDDs onto it..

sorr ythis doesn't pertain to the thread but what does ddp mean... dragon dagger poison from runescape haha?

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i got a big Dual Interface Core Kit

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ddp

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26. August 2007 @ 18:40

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nope, my intials

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truno

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26. August 2007 @ 23:17

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yeah i thought of a recovery service too but then i calmed down a bit and googled around. i found this great little free tool called testdisk 6.7 but i don't know what to (and not to) do there are a couple of options like rebuild Boot sector and stuff like that. but i don't want to write over my data i can browse my data through the testdisk interface but i don't have enough space on my other harddrives to copy all my data from the dammged drives to the healthy drives. what i want to do is build what ever was corrupted on the 1 TB drive and not have to move anything. but life isn't that simply so i guess i will have to but another drive to store all my data on. has anyone ever used this tool and where are all the data recovery experts at?

the drive is not 8 years old some of the data on it is over 8 years old.

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PeaInAPod

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27. August 2007 @ 07:43

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Well I would leave the drive unplugged at all times unless you are trying to recover from it as windows could overwrite files. Also I would recommend building a BartPE disk. I am not sure if it would work in your case but it is worth a shot. BartPE is a bootable recovery enviroment that once burned to a cd and booted from gives you access to all your drives. There are other features to it but thats the one most important to you. But unless you can access your harddrive with a Data Recovery program and have the means to back all that data up either onto another harddrive or onto many DVD's then I would recommend data recovery. Because I personally would not want to lost 8 years of data let alone 1Tb of data.

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"Some people have no damn sense." - Nephilim, March 27 2007 @ 18:08

truno

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27. August 2007 @ 08:39

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thanks PeaInAPod. that BartPe disk looks interesting i'll have to look more into that. that reminds me, there was an awesome guide by bart on how to build a bootable xp disk. i haven't been able to find it though. any way back to the subject. i decided on using testdisk to copy my stuff to another drive then burn them to DVD and after words just reformat my 1TB drive and put it all back. I'd have all the DVD's as back ups so i can sleep safe. thanks everyone else for the help.

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FaugYou

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28. August 2007 @ 10:30

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i have a song from the 1950's does that mean my HDD is 57 years old? hah jk

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i got a big Dual Interface Core Kit

ddp

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28. August 2007 @ 14:04

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