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bonchick

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Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« on: April 27, 2007, 05:16:59 PM »
I read some topics here but still couldn't resolve my problem.
Here we go:

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I have Toshiba Satellite 17" laptop Celeron 1.7 gHz 256+512 mb RAM 60 gb HD.
OS - Windows XP Pro SP2 (not original which comes with laptop). I use AVG7 antivirus.

problem:
I have 300gb Maxtor external HD (not new) where I keep most of my movie, music, anime.
One day I've got some virus from internet. And my external HD was connected to comp. AVG moved it to virusvolt. Later I cleared virusvolt folder by AVG. Then after for a while (I left extHD connected to comp for a night to download some things) I have no idea what happened but I couldn't find ANYTHING on extHD.
My Computer shows it as Lockal Drive G: total size:0, free space:0. Actually I gave to extHD totally different name.
When I tryied to open it. Comp shows an error.

actions:
I tried MANY softweres to get my data back but no result. Some of them do not see extHD. Some do see but cannot do anything. Shows an errors. Only 2 progs could tell me that HD is 300gb and free space 30gb on it. And then there's no or corrupted MFT - cannot fix.

question:
HELP!!! PLEASE!!! I want my data back.

GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2007, 05:54:45 PM »
ANd if you right click on the drive in My Computer and choose "properties" what does it show?

bonchick

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2007, 09:20:30 PM »
Sorry it took some time to get home and check it one more time.

So Device Manager say that there is such HD - location:0, device working properly, capacity: 286173mb.

It looks like ok... ???

GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2007, 09:23:56 PM »
And the file format is?

bonchick

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2007, 09:30:39 PM »
NTFS

GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2007, 10:02:35 PM »
The first thing you do is start a new thread, rather than trying to hijack this one. Thanks.

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2007, 07:11:54 AM »
bonchick,

Have you tried hooking up that external to another machine....preferably a desktop ? ?
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bonchick

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2007, 09:33:52 AM »
Yes, I tried as external. But same thing.

GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2007, 11:41:51 AM »
NTFS

I'm sure that's what is was, but what is it listed as now?

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2007, 01:06:34 PM »
RAW would be my guess...
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GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2007, 04:31:34 PM »
 ;)

bonchick

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2007, 07:01:54 PM »
Sorry guys I just came back.

I don't really know how to find out.

I run one of the progs (testdisk) and it says - HPFS-NTFS.
????

GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2007, 07:38:40 PM »
ANd if you right click on the drive in My Computer and choose "properties" what does it show?

bonchick

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2007, 08:06:05 PM »
oh yeah, it's RAW.

GX1_Man

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Re: Problem with HD (another one)(lost all data)
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2007, 08:10:02 PM »
A very bad sign indeed. How did Patio and I know?