Re: USB HD no longer recognized!

On 2 Jan 2006 18:38:51 -0800, google3luo359@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi George,
>
> Thanks for helping out!
>I was beginning to think no one was going to reply.
>
>Yes I have learned a lesson here re: backups. But if there is good news
>these files are not high importance ones. More like low-medium
>importance.
>It would still save me a heck of amount of time if I could somehow get
>them back.
>
>I tried the fast scandisk and it didn't show anything up. It only found
>10G as well.
>I'm doing the long scandisk right now.
>
>I am holding out with Fdisking again because until I know what
>happened, it can very well happen again. (Aside from losing your data
>completely) there is nothing worse than making a backup and aways
>wondering if the data will be seen the next time you use the disk.

Please don't re-FDISK to try to recover the files. It won't work.

>I will look into Norton or another recovery program.
>So these programs will recover lost partitions as well as data?

The recovery programs can locate files regardless of partition
structure. There are many to choose from. Many have free trials you
can use to test if they can find your missing data. You might
consider removing the Drive from the case and installing it internally
if you now consider the drive box suspicious.

Norton Disk doctor can (hopefully) correct partition structure damage.
It's been a long time since I used NDD on FAT or FAT32. IIRC it may
have trouble correcting your particular situation but is still worth a
try. But try to recover the files first.

>Thanks again!
>
> Ric

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