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... About to backup approximately 40 hours of Lotusphere prep work (including VMware images, documents and rough presentations) to your terastation, and the external drive stopping to read all data....only resolved by formatting it, and losing everything.

Yeah...... that just about does it

Posted by Paul Mooney On 27/11/2006 | Digg This | Permalink

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1 - oooooooooooohhh, I'm SO sorry.
The same thing happened to me, was it a Maxtor brand external? After reformatting, I was able to get everything back - Go download a trial of a program called "GetDataBackforFAT" (or GetDataBackforNTFS depending on what the file system was).

The software is amazing, I own both of them. Best of all, you don't buy it unless the software shows you your data can be recovered.

PLEASE try it, you may have lost nothing.
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Posted by Jess Stratton At 13:44:30 On 27/11/2006 | - Website - |

2 - Seal it up and put it in the freezer for a few hours.

You'd be surprised how well that works.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 22:41:51 On 27/11/2006 | - Website - |

3 - Give it a try anyway... you can use the software to recover data even when the disk can't be recognized by Windows.

The trial version is free until you figure out if you CAN actually recover data, so you don't have anything to lose.

Posted by Jess Stratton At 01:20:35 On 28/11/2006 | - Website - |

4 - Jess, you are a dear, but I'm afraid the disk has shuffled its mortal coil... and won't even start now. Declan suggested the "one inch drop" test. I am more at the "f**k it against the wall test" phase!.
Ah sure... could be worse.....

Posted by Paul Mooney At 21:27:41 On 27/11/2006 | - Website - |

5 - Och , now that hurts .. Emoticon