Lief Hendrickson wrote:
At 04:57 PM 8/9/07 -0700, you wrote:
On 8/9/07, Lief Hendrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 80 GB hard drive that was in an external USB enclosure. It
> stopped working. I put the drive in a different enclosure and
> connected. The computer recognized that there is a USB drive but
says it
> is unformatted. Can anyone help with data revovery? Thanks.
>
Explain further "it stopped working".
Can you tell whether the disk is spinning? Listen for bearing noises,
feel for vibration, try to detect gyroscopic effects.
carl
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It physically works fine as far as I can tell based on comparing the
running sound to other hard drives. I should have said it stopped being
accessible. I put it in another USB hard drive enclosure - after
verifying that the USB enclosure works with another hard drive. The
computer recognized there is a hard drive present, but it can not access
it. I tried it under windows 2000 - I went to a DOS prompt and entered
the disk letter and got a message saying the disk is unformatted and
asking me if I want to format it. I wonder if something at the
beginning of the disk has become corrupted making it look like it's
unformatted and if so the problem is how to recover formatting
(partition table problem???) without losing all the data. Any ideas or
sources of expertise would be appreciated.
I'd try physically mounting it IN the computer that you want to access
it, vs. in another USB device. More control would be available,
including dd for a backup before diagnostics.
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