Hi guys.
My USB disk is "kaput". 🙁((((((((((((
Can anyone recomend a program to try to recover it\some of the data, please?
I'm so sad!! 🙁(((((((((((((
Cheers,
Rita Graça.
My DOS machine: MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium MMX 200MHz, 64MB RAM, AWE64 Gold, 4GB HD, Philips 19" CRT, 3"1/2 Floppy, CDROM, Parallel ZIP, ThrustMaster FLCS+TQL+Elite.
Well for the future I can recommend a tool from Microsoft called SyncToy.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155
It allows you to sync / backup folders and I do this for my USB sticks.
So on the PC I have a folder called "8GB Kingston Backup" and I run Sync Toy on a regular basis.
If you would like fully automatic backup to the cloud can recommend Microsoft LiveMesh.
Via usb not much can be done. You can try disassembling the usb case and hook up the hd via ata or sata to the pc and use some tool as test drive to fix the partition table. You will lose warranty of the usb drive though and no guarantee it will help.
wrote:Via usb not much can be done. You can try disassembling the usb case and hook up the hd via ata or sata to the pc and use some tool as test drive to fix the partition table. You will lose warranty of the usb drive though and no guarantee it will help.
How about a sort of Norton Disk Doctor for USB HD's?
Cheers,
Rita Graça.
My DOS machine: MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium MMX 200MHz, 64MB RAM, AWE64 Gold, 4GB HD, Philips 19" CRT, 3"1/2 Floppy, CDROM, Parallel ZIP, ThrustMaster FLCS+TQL+Elite.
If you find something like that, be my guest and give us a review. Last time I looked via USB it lacks full control of the hd
Some USB enclosures may be controlled via ASPI (MHDD has a boot floppy with those drivers), but unfortunately it won't help you past some low level checks.
You better get that drive out of the case and connect directly to your motherboard, to use any other repair tool.
BTW, what has happended exactly? Your drive is detected but doesn't show any files? It shows as unformatted? Or it even is undetected by the OS?
I have traveled across the universe and through the years to find Her.
Sometimes going all the way is just a start...
I agree with removing the drive from the enclosure.
I had a USB hard drive fail, and upon removal, determined the control board inside the enclosure had failed and not the drive itself.
We should take this one step at a time. What does "kaput" mean?
Data recovery is an art as well as a science, but more an art. Depending on exactly how it failed and what it is doing now will determine how we proceed restoring your data.
What happened prior to failure? What make and model? Do you have power to it? Does it make unusual or out-of-the-ordinary noises? Was it dropped? Are we talking a format? File corruption? Partition table corruption?
You have to tell us more! Because just recommending a solution with no information can cause more damage to your files.
wrote:What does "kaput" mean?
Jwt: very witty but I think the general meaning was clear, but... uhm... too general
wrote:We should take this one step at a time. What does "kaput" mean? […]
We should take this one step at a time. What does "kaput" mean?
Data recovery is an art as well as a science, but more an art. Depending on exactly how it failed and what it is doing now will determine how we proceed restoring your data.
What happened prior to failure? What make and model? Do you have power to it? Does it make unusual or out-of-the-ordinary noises? Was it dropped? Are we talking a format? File corruption? Partition table corruption?
You have to tell us more! Because just recommending a solution with no information can cause more damage to your files.
Hi.
It's an IOmega LPHD-UP.
When I connect it to the USB port, it powers up (white led lights up). I can hear it spinning up, and it vibrates, so the HD seems to be OK.
A new local disk appears in My Cmputer, but when I click on it, it says I need to format the disk.
Then I click cancel and I get a "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)."
So maybe it's not a hardware problem? (wishful thinking).
Cheers,
Rita Graça.
My DOS machine: MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium MMX 200MHz, 64MB RAM, AWE64 Gold, 4GB HD, Philips 19" CRT, 3"1/2 Floppy, CDROM, Parallel ZIP, ThrustMaster FLCS+TQL+Elite.
wrote:wrote:What does "kaput" mean?
Very droll. 😜
Cheers,
Rita Graça.
My DOS machine: MS-DOS 6.22, Pentium MMX 200MHz, 64MB RAM, AWE64 Gold, 4GB HD, Philips 19" CRT, 3"1/2 Floppy, CDROM, Parallel ZIP, ThrustMaster FLCS+TQL+Elite.
This confirms that you should seperate usb enclosure and hdd, to find out whether the hdd or the case are broken
A few pieces of advice:
1) Don't run chkdsk.
2) Don't run chkdsk !
3) DON'T RUN CHKDSK !!!
4) Use a good data recovery program first:
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Data_Re … _Download.shtml
5) And if they fail, prepare your wallet for the quite astronomical sums that Data Recovery houses ask for!
