Help Me Recover My External Disk!!

[albertlee]

Hi all,

 

My external harddrive cannot be opened from "My Computer" any more...

 

A popup window saying that the partition is not yet partitioned, which isn't apearing before....

 

I have run a check on it using Partition Magic 7.0 trial, and indeed there are errors...

 

The errors are:

 

1) plenty of "File Record Mark used"

 

2) 1 "Internal File number does not match"

 

3) 1 "crossed linked files were found"

 

4) 1 "Error: %d"

note: the error listed may have spelling error.

 

 

However, since the soft is a trial, I cannot run "fix", so.....

 

does any one know the fastest way for me to retrieve my files?? I think it is still a great chance since Partition Magic can still identify it as NTFS with number of volumes used, unlike Windows.

 

Please help..

 

thanks

[albertlee]

Hey, weird,,,,,

 

after I restarted my laptop, the external drive is accessable again by Windows.....

 

still, the partitionmagic can detect lots of errors as mentioned above...

 

is there a reason?

[5614]

I dunno, I would assume there is some kind of minor corruption on the HDD. If you can recover files off it I would do so and then format etc. just incase.

[smallball]

I think DataRecoveryWizard is very useful to you. It have a very high success rate on data recover. Homepage: http://www.easeus.com

[Adrian]

http://www.runtime.org

 

I use that at work to recover formatted or even HDs that cant be reconized. It's $80 I believe. Used it over 2 years now.