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Author:  mix4fix [ September 24th, 2018, 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  How to save a hard drive?

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?

Author:  mix4fix [ October 5th, 2018, 2:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

Anybody?

Author:  FerdinandII [ October 5th, 2018, 3:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

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

Author:  mix4fix [ October 5th, 2018, 3:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

Properties shows data. Bootice shows no drive letter, Bootice freezes when trying to assign drive letter, and Bootice shows 1.44MB size.

Author:  brombo [ October 5th, 2018, 3:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

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.

Author:  Stuart Polansky [ October 5th, 2018, 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

Here is how I would approach the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwrIZQDt50

Author:  Roscoe Primrose [ October 5th, 2018, 5:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

Stuart Polansky wrote:
Here is how I would approach the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwrIZQDt50


I didn't realize you were that tech savvy ;)

Roscoe

Author:  mix4fix [ October 6th, 2018, 10:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

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.

Author:  FerdinandII [ October 9th, 2018, 3:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

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.

Author:  mix4fix [ October 10th, 2018, 1:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How to save a hard drive?

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.

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