Last week my USB HDD stopped working. It may even hangs the whole computer if I plug it in. Today I am gonna buy a new HDD(may be USB again) so that I can recover the data. I think I would be able to recover things from it because yesterday I ran chkdsk on that drive and it said that I data in bla bla area, data is not readable. It stuck at 1 and 3 percent only but it was fine everywhere else. At the moment I am searching for a data recovery software. I cant imagine :swear: loosing all my pictures, videos from my HDD.....
~Hands Karanislove a tisue~ [] Yea, i know how you feel on this one... i have lost many things many time.... why buy another USB HDD? just rip open the case of the one you have and determine if its the HDD or the IDE<>USB interface thats faulty (or in worst case, both!). good luck!
Thanks for being so kind~! It is first and I think would be the last time because from now on I will take care of my things more sincerely. It was my Bday on last 29th and I uploaded all the photos to that drive.... I want them back so I will die trying get them back...... I have checked my USB device with another HDD of my laptop and its working. So, I am dead sure that USB drive is good but HDD is faulty now.~!
Well here's an idear Rip the HDD out of the caddy, put it in your laptop and use a LiveCD and ftp to recover anything readable... I use the Backtrack LiveCD for everything i need a LiceCD for (and it has forensic recovery tools ) They have just released V1.0: Torrent HTTP & FTP Mirrors PS keep an eye on THIS thread aswell, something usefull might pop up (somebody else with a faulty hdd with important things on it ) Good Luck
This Backtrack LiveCD seems to me a very good tool. I will burn it on a CD and will run live on my faulty HDD to get as much data as possible. Thanks for it~!
Your quite welcome PS use the torrent if possible It reduces the load on the mirrors (leaving them for people who need it, aka there ISP blocks bittorent traffic) AND makes the point that P2P networks might have alot of warez on them, but there also used for legal distribution of software/art/etc it also helps everyone else using the torrent... (more seeds + peers = better transfer ) Good luck!
That Depends, If the details of the file you want to recover are in the partitions file table (i cant remember the exact term to describe it) then ubuntu will be able to find them quite hapailly, but if the files have been deleted, partition formatted, file table corrupted etc then you will need something that will go throught the entuire disc looking for files (aka forensic file recovery). Have a go with Ubuntu, it saves you from downloading another ISO even if it doesnt work
I download the backtrack iso file. Copied to a disc. Replace the faulty HDD with the working HDD of the laptop. Change the first boot device to CD. Insert the CD and what happend................ml tdr is missing. Then I left all my hopes from recovering the data by myself. I went to a coputer shop and he did everything recovered for me in $40 NZD and now I am happy but curious, why backtrack didnt worked.
