I recently built a new PC and wanted to incorporate my WD green 1tb hard drive that contains my film collection. Many of these films were hard to obtain and would take a lot of time to replace.
It is recognized in BIOS, but listed as 0GB? It is not recognized in Windows and I've tried all the standard troubleshooting methods...changing sata cables, ports, etc. It's definitely the drive :(
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posted by WhitenoisE
on Feb 1, 2013 -
9 answers
Please recommend a business to recover data from a failed hard drive in Perth, Western Australia. (Laptop hard-drive.)
posted by Year of meteors
on Nov 28, 2012 -
4 answers
How do I retrieve data from very old (one is circa 1998) laptop drives? They contain a lot of interesting history from my time in Silicon Valley before the tech crash that I vowed I would one day retrieve.
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posted by zaebiz
on Sep 18, 2012 -
3 answers
I have a SanDisk Cruzer 32 GB USB flash drive that is holding my data hostage. I got one of those "there might be errors, want me to check and fix them?" messages and said yes, which the PC did without problems. Then I was unable to "safely" remove it despite shutting down all programs on my computer, so I had to pull it. Now, although the computer recognizes that it is in the port and assigns it a drive letter, it cannot read any files, asks my to reformat, and shows as either full or empty.
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posted by sarahkeebs
on Mar 28, 2012 -
2 answers
How can I access a perfectly functioning Macbook hard-drive in an otherwise not perfectly functioning computer?
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posted by taltalim
on Feb 16, 2012 -
22 answers
My teacher wife has been using multiurl.com for years to stash links for her students. The site was evidently taken off line, with no warning, due to abuse by spammers. My wife has no backup of the links she had stored there.
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posted by tomswift
on Dec 3, 2011 -
9 answers
Please help me salvage data on my perfectly functional iphone. How can I copy and restore data if ituens sync doesn't work?
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posted by mercredi
on Nov 14, 2011 -
9 answers
Data recovery tools: What are the best free tools that are currently available? Also, I have this hard drive that is being a jerk.
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posted by Mister Fabulous
on Jul 19, 2011 -
4 answers
XP. Trying to get backed up files off old desktop computer. Using windows explorer, I cannot 'see' a partition on secondary hard drive, like the partition is hidden. But I *can* see the files when I search for *.mp3 or *.jpg or *.txt over the whole machine; they can be seen, through search facility, read only, in a partition that doesn't even show up in win explorer. I'm not certain if I somehow hid that partition and if I did I've no idea how I did it. I want to get these files off that desktop and to a place I can access them anywhere anytime, but right now I can't access them at all. Any help you can provide greatly appreciated.
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posted by dancestoblue
on Apr 7, 2011 -
4 answers
I'm trying to pull old Ensoniq SQ-80 sequencer files from ancient floppies, and I have a few questions.
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posted by mykescipark
on Mar 7, 2011 -
6 answers
Please help me to figure out if any library catalog entries were lost during a file transfer from an old to a newer computer.
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posted by dancingfruitbat
on Feb 15, 2011 -
5 answers
My
iPhone got run over by a car. It's unresponsive. Of course I haven't done a back up in ages. I just want my pictures off it. Any way I can attempt the mount the memory chip?
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posted by rdhatt
on Jul 13, 2010 -
7 answers
I've got a ~350mb zip archive that I created a couple of years ago. It contains files that are now fairly important to my portfolio. And I can't get them out. Please hope me.
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posted by pts
on Jun 25, 2010 -
8 answers
A friend of mine recently came to me with an all-too-common problem-- she thought her hard drive died, decided to format it, and then remembered about all the photos she kept on it.
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posted by phaedrus441
on Jun 8, 2010 -
6 answers
Hardware-level hard drive data recovery. Anyone in the business care to share for a DIY attempt?
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posted by zippy
on Jun 3, 2010 -
13 answers
Floppy disk recovery service: I recently came across a cache of some very old 3.5" floppy disks of mine. Windows XP can't read these DOS disks. I would like to ship these off to a professional service which will safely export the data (onto a CD, say) and send it all back to me. Can you recommend a company which provides this sort of service? Thanks.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell
on Jan 31, 2010 -
12 answers
Are there any services (preferably in Canada) that will attempt to get data from a damaged SD card? A friend has baby pictures on an SD card, which said baby later found and used as an inappropriate teething aid.
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posted by scruss
on Nov 29, 2009 -
6 answers
Stupid computerfilter: I didn't back up, and now the external drive seems dead. Options?
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posted by neewom
on Oct 10, 2009 -
6 answers
Yesterday, my portable hard drive got knocked over while it was being read from and began making a vicious gurgle. My husband unplugged it before I could try to disconnect it. When I turned it back on, it's still sounds terrible.
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posted by droomoord
on Sep 11, 2009 -
19 answers
My Maxtor Basics 1 terabyte external USB 2.0 drive no longer mounts. I have been through all the usual stuff with tech support (including disk management and device management) and I've tried it on multiple computers. Although the green light comes on when it's plugged into USB, apart from that it's not talking to the computer. There has been no strange noise, clicking, smoke or smell. Maxtor tech support say it's a failed drive. A data recovery company I phoned said it's probably damaged firmware but the data on the disk is probably safe. I'm nervous about sending it to a data recovery company because I seem to be looking at about GBP £179 minimum or maybe many, many hundreds more. Is it likely to be a matter of simply soldering something here or replacing something there, ie a job that I could take to a local geek? Or should I be looking to take this to a major data recovery centre? I'm in London, UK.
posted by skylar
on Aug 26, 2009 -
7 answers
I am trying to recover data from a WD3200ME-01, a WD 320GB USB-powered drive but the physical drive does not have SATA or IDE connection - only a mini USB connection soldered to the circuit board - and the drive is not recognized via USB anymore.
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posted by dozo
on Jul 16, 2009 -
9 answers
Hard drive recovery: my external USB hard drive is mounting fine on both my mac and PC, however, all the files are showing up as garbage characters.
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posted by mike_bling
on Jun 1, 2009 -
4 answers
All my calendar entries gone! Help! Any way to recover them from either my phone or iCal on my Mac?
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posted by pablocake
on Apr 30, 2009 -
5 answers
A friend plugged his Seagate usb external drive into a MacBook Pro and then somehow inadvertantly accepted a prompt to set the drive up for Time Machine backups without thinking. The drive hasn't been written to since then. Is there a way to get the original data back (there's no backup, of course)? Failing that, any recommendations for data recovery services in the UK?
posted by amestoy
on Apr 9, 2009 -
9 answers
How can I repair any broken files resulting from power loss during defragmentation? It seems that most file recovery applications want to move everything to a new disk, but this is not a good option for me because I don't have any other drives large enough. I was using iDefrag on my terabyte (My Book) external hard drive. It had gotten almost 21 hours in, and somehow the power cable got unplugged and the battery died. To make a long story short, iDefrag can't see the disk at all, Disk Utility sees the hard drive but not any of the data or the partition itself, and verify and repair are not selectable.
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posted by N2O1138
on Feb 22, 2009 -
6 answers
I was working on someone's laptop and all of their data has been overwritten. How do I break it to them gently?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 26, 2008 -
29 answers
Please recommend a data recovery/harddrive recovery firm, familiarity with HFS+ filesystems a plus. I've got a dead harddrive that spins up and shows one partition, but I cannot repair it either under OS X or with a Linux live CD. I've tried a few software packages, but none of them get any data off the drive. (Though Data Rescue II does show a list of the file names, when I restored a file, it didn't open, so it can see the files, it's just returning corrupt data.)
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posted by Brian Puccio
on Aug 17, 2008 -
7 answers
Dead hard disk on a G3 iMac. Seemingly healthy 2nd-hand G4 iMac. If I try to access data on the dead machine via target disk mode, is there a chance—any chance at all—that I could screw up the healthy machine?
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posted by neroli
on Aug 3, 2008 -
7 answers
Can you save data from an iPhone, in any manner, once it has entered "recovery" mode and iTunes informs you that you need to restore the phone?
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posted by Countess Elena
on May 11, 2008 -
3 answers
Got a 2000 server with PCI SCSI RAID card (Mirror) and the mobo seems to have died. I just want to recover the data and host it on another machine. How do I do that?
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posted by tslugmo
on Jan 18, 2008 -
4 answers
My windows didn't want to boot up, so I bought a new hard disc installed Windows on it and made the old one slave. The old hard disc reads as completely empty. Why?
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posted by A!
on Nov 4, 2007 -
15 answers
How do I recover music from an iPod that has suddenly reset itself?
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posted by Doug
on Oct 14, 2007 -
10 answers
What is the easiest way to make a bit-perfect copy of a potentially failing laptop hard drive? The copy target would be a new 2.5" drive that I'd then install in the same laptop.
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posted by killdevil
on Aug 11, 2007 -
37 answers
I was going to repartition an external USB hard drive in Mac OS X 10.4 in Disk Utility, and after I clicked Partition, I thought I clicked Cancel when I learned it would result in data loss. I guess I actually clicked OK, and then I quickly quit Disk Utility and disconnected the drive (it had already been unmounted). Now, when I reconnect the drive, it shows up as having been repartitioned, and all of the data on there is gone. Can I get my data back?
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posted by jbb7
on Jul 7, 2007 -
6 answers
Does anyone have experiences with
Gillware for recovering data from a dead hard drive, aside from user
bhance? They are cheaper than the big enterprise-level data recovery companies, but I'd like to see comments from more than one person if possible.
posted by matildaben
on Jun 17, 2007 -
3 answers
I accidentally formatted my NTFS drive with HFS and wrote some data on it. Now how do I recover whatever is left?
>>>Any filesystem experts around here?
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posted by oneous
on Apr 26, 2007 -
6 answers
I clobbered a file by saving a downloaded file with the same name. Options?
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posted by rkent
on Apr 24, 2007 -
5 answers
How can I run a dictionary attack against a password-protected disk image file on OS X?
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posted by alms
on Sep 24, 2006 -
16 answers
My hard drive died and I want to recover a great deal of the data that (hopefully) still exists on it.
After reading the Metafilter Wiki, I know this question has been asked before, but my question relates more to the process of recovering the data than the actual possibility of doing so.
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posted by Effigy2000
on Sep 18, 2006 -
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