Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Mackinback on September 24, 2008, 06:53:06 PM
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Hello all,
Having a bit of an issue.. I was replacing a harddrive on a HP desktop to start with a fresh OS load. Never thought to disconnect the USB drive that connected. Well it turned out the harddrive I put in the computer was bad.. So when I fired up the HP restore it chose the USB drive to use.
It was starting to format the drive when I realized what was going on. It had to be a few seconds into the format that I unplugged the drive. Well long story short the USB drive doesn't read. I have used countless programs to try and recover it. It's mainly music on the drive and I did recover it but all the files have been renamed to generic numbers. The last program I used was testdisk to try and recovery/create a new partition so I can access the drive to copy the files over. But that did not work too well. Instead of the drive saying 'not formatted. Format now?', it's opens to a blank drive.
Any ideas? All that is needed is the music. Just want to copy it over and format the USB drive.
Thanks for the help,
Steve
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Have you tried recuva?
http://www.recuva.com/
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Just downloaded it.. Running the deep scan. Do you happen to know if it keeps file names it recovers??
Thanks for the suggestion.