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How to save a hard drive?
Posted: September 24th, 2018, 12:28 pm
by mix4fix
I have an old hard drive that shows content in Properties but when you explore it there are no files.
How do you rescue the data on the drive?
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 5th, 2018, 2:44 pm
by mix4fix
Anybody?
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 5th, 2018, 3:09 pm
by FerdinandII
All Microsoft systems in play here....?
Do you know what format was used to originally format the drive?
If it's old, it is probably FAT16 or FAT32
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 5th, 2018, 3:40 pm
by mix4fix
Properties shows data. Bootice shows no drive letter, Bootice freezes when trying to assign drive letter, and Bootice shows 1.44MB size.
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 5th, 2018, 3:55 pm
by brombo
I would plug it into by linux (ubuntu) systems and see what I could see. Then I would google disk recovery tools for ubuntu. I assume you have done that for windows.
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 5th, 2018, 5:34 pm
by Stuart Polansky
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 5th, 2018, 5:43 pm
by Roscoe Primrose
I didn't realize you were that tech savvy
Roscoe
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 6th, 2018, 10:50 pm
by mix4fix
mix4fix wrote:Properties shows data. Bootice shows no drive letter, Bootice freezes when trying to assign drive letter, and Bootice shows 1.44MB size.
I used the right recovery tool. It did a deep scan and is getting everything.
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 9th, 2018, 3:25 pm
by FerdinandII
What WAS the "right recovery tool"?
mix4fix wrote:mix4fix wrote:Properties shows data. Bootice shows no drive letter, Bootice freezes when trying to assign drive letter, and Bootice shows 1.44MB size.
I used the right recovery tool. It did a deep scan and is getting everything.
Re: How to save a hard drive?
Posted: October 10th, 2018, 1:42 am
by mix4fix
FerdinandII wrote:What WAS the "right recovery tool"?
mix4fix wrote:mix4fix wrote:Properties shows data. Bootice shows no drive letter, Bootice freezes when trying to assign drive letter, and Bootice shows 1.44MB size.
I used the right recovery tool. It did a deep scan and is getting everything.
I though it was a partition issue, so I was looking for something that would un-partition it. I didn't find one that was free and allowed me to recover everything (and not just a little bit).
I searched for recovery, and found a list of a dozen of free ones. I used the second or third one (Puran) and that did the trick. Another day, I will try to format the drive.