Help Please! External Hard Disk Drive files vanished!
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Hi all,
Apologies for posting this here, not exactly on SketchUP although I can't access ANY of my files now.
Basically, I keep ALL of my documents on an external hard disk drive. I do this because I work on a few computers so it's easier to move between laptops with an external disk drive.
However, I have turned on tonight and ALL of my documents on my hard drive (Buffallo HD-CEU2) have vanished. Gone. All my wedding photos, work documents and ALL my sketchup stuff. Could cry.
This is all I get now (see attachment). Is there anything I can do? I feel sick.
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Try Recuva, a free file recovery program. Note, I also use an external hard drive, because I am also on different computers as I work.
Hope this helps.
Ken
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Thanks, Ken. Unfortunately, I keep getting an 'unable to read boot sector' message and the program doesn't start.
Why has this happened? Have I dont something wrong?
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The boot sector is the sector that starts the disk...
Take a trip to your nearest PC experts and get them to look at the hard-disk - they might be able to recover at least some of the stuff with their various utilities........ -
Thanks TIG.
I'm gutted. Just remembering so much stuff that's on there - ALL my music (1000's of songs), photos etc, and tons of SU stuff.
Just don't know why it's happened. It hasn't been unplugged or anything.
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Similar thing happened to me but the local PC World's guy ["there are other Tech Support Organizations"] did recover [most] of the hard-disk - it did take over 48 hours and it cost £20 ! But worth it - AND the hard-disk was even [re]usable afterwards, BUT then it had a smaller size ???
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I agree, this stuff just happens. Hard drives gob ad after a time. I've recently upgraded to a mirrored array so at least I have some back up against single disk failure.
Chris
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I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but it's a classic case of "Must backup everything".
I too learnt my lesson the hard way- by backing up on to cheap DVD's that no drive can access any longer.
I do hope you recover your files leedeetee.
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Thanks for the advice guys.
Lesson learnt.
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Give this a whirl...
Partition Recovery and File Undelete
TestDisk is a free and open source data recovery software tool designed to recover lost partition and unerase deleted files.
CGSecurity (www.cgsecurity.org)
Find a step by step tutorial here
TestDisk Step By Step
This recovery example guides you through TestDisk step by step to recover a missing partition and repair a corrupted one. After reading this tutorial, you should...
CGSecurity (www.cgsecurity.org)
It worked for me
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