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Hard Drive Jitters

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/hard-drive-jitters.109023/

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sid1881 Original post #1
Feb 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM
I have an external hard drive. It was working fine until now. Yesterday when I plugged it in, it didn't respond. I have valuable data on the drive. Can the data be recovered?? Please repsond asap because its very crucial.
rhitwick
Feb 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM
What does it mena "didn't repond"???
Was drive detected??
If not, try in a few more PCs...to be sure its not ur USB port...
If, its same with every PC, then there's no way to recover d data...only the H/W support people of d company "can" do something...if under warranty they will replace/repair ur drive.
To recover ur data they may charge u...
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sid1881 #3
Feb 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Yes the drive gets detected after some time and opens too on double clicking but I cann't see any content there. I cann't even transfer content to the drive.
rhitwick
Feb 20, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Connect it to ur frnd's PC, check if contents are showing.
If not run checkdisk on it.

Report back...

A few good data recovery s/w are there, I would recommend "Recover My Files"...remember its paid