[Simply Computers] Re: Portable Hard Disk Problem

 

Hi Anuj

You said your external drive was not being recognized by the computer, but you also said that you used a file recovery program to get your data back.

To me, this means that the computer must have recognized the drive sometime, or else the file recovery program would not "see" it either.

I assume that the file recovery program that you used runs in Windows, is that correct?

If you can get Windows to recognize your external drive again, just open My Computer and right-click on the icon for the external drive.

Then click Properties, then Tools and then Error Checking. Set it to try to fix bad sectors if possible.

If you can't get this to work, I would try the method that Ardell suggested. He has much more experience with this type of thing than I do.

One other thing to keep in mind is that the external drive case has circuitry that converts the hard drive output into USB. Sometimes that circuitry goes bad, and the hard drive can just be removed from the external case and plugged internally into the computer as another internal drive.

rogerX

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "Anuj" <anuj.juneja.123@...> wrote:
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> Thanks Sirs for replying:)
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> @ RogerX sir, I have ordered a new one, still I wanted if it can be recovered:) Still, I'm Happy to get my data back, Thanks again, n if possible, pls tell the solution as to how it can be recovered while i'm trying the 1st method as was there in 1st reply:)
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> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "RogerX19" <helpmeroger@> wrote:
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> > You said you already got your data back, so it might be time for a new hard drive.
> >
> > There are software tools that can examine your hard drive, and mark the bad sectors as unusable, which will make the hard drive almost good as new.
> >
> > However, you were lucky this time. Will you trust this drive in the future? How long before more sectors become unusable?
> >
> > What if it totally fails two months from now? or two weeks?
> >
> > rogerX
> >
> > --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "Anuj" <anuj.juneja.123@> wrote:
> > >
> > > my hard disk is not being recognised by the system. I tried a lot. In the end to save my data, i used file recovery software, which gave my data back, but while using it, in the info bar, it also reported the status of sector 1 to sector 63 as poor, and afterwards from 63 to end(48 something), it reported as not good.
> > >
> > > Can you help me? Is it a temporary damage or permanent?
> > >
> >
>

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