Is there any way a hard drive could be used for years and then not have anything left on it but a few windows icons left on it even with recovery software? The drive was not formatted or wiped. I used a few different programs to recover and nothing but some windows icons was found. Also the drive was clicking the night before and having read/write errors within windows xp.
Is there anyway this could of happen and please provide as much info as you can. Thanks
I have got a new drive but there was stuff on that drive that I would like to recover if I can. Now the drive acts fine and doesn’t click but yet it acts as it was wiped clean. What could of happen.

I just recently got a new PC and I installed my old hard drive as a slave. Unfortunately, I found that I cannot access the files on the drive.

So, I downloaded a recovery software (RecoverMyFiles) but all it does is search the hard drive and return thousands of files with their filenames renamed! The program shows checkboxes where the user is prompted to select the type of files they want to search but I find it inconvenient to find the exact files I need out of the thousands of search results!

All the files I need are contained in only one folder. Is there a software that can recover whole folders instead of just files? HELP!!!

I have an old hard drive that I want to get some stuff from but I don’t want to throw it in my computer. Will file recovery software work on external drives? ie. Flash drives, USB drives, especially USB-IDE drives.
Will some work and some not? Any suggestions?

I used a USB 2.0 to IDE or SATA adapter from Cables to Go to connect the hard drive from my tower pc(running XP) to my new HP Pavilion 9000 laptop loaded with Vista. The hard drive that I connected was the hard drive loaded with the XP OS, and also had a "system restore/recovery" partition on it. It had special recovery software from Emachines (the manufacturer of the PC) I think.

Usually when the Emachines PC is booted, it first shows the main screen with the Emachines logo and also mentions "[F9] for Boot Options] and the like. Then there is a black screen that says "Press [F11] to start recovery __". The "__" is a countdown that always starts from 2 and then goes to 0. When it gets to 0 it always goes to a new screen where it informs you that it is loading Windows XP. I believe the countdown was to inform the user that after 2 seconds, it would be to late to press [F11] and therefore would have to restart the PC in order to perform the System Recovery. Anyway, it no longer behaves the way it should. Now, instead of continuing to the next screen after the count down ends, it posts a new line in the prompt bellow the first one with the same text as the previous line along with a new 2 sec. count down. It repeats the same thing over and over for eternity. I let it cycle through about 300 lines of crap and shut it down. After several more boots, it does the same thing, and the only response to me actually pressing [F11] is that the current line’s count down ends instantly, only to create a new line. Is this because I connected it to a Vista PC? The hard drive definitely works, but why can’t it be booted from? It’s detected by my old PC and it even loads to the "System Recovery" screen, so it must be connecting. Is there some way I can make the hard drive bootable again?

Also, I already tried using the same adapter with my tower PC and tried booting it that way, but it also freezes on the same screen.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

I have a 250GB USB removable mass storage device. I am using Windows Vista. The device has stopped working for some reason and can no longer be viewed in Explorer. I have tried rescanning the disks in Disk Management to no avail. All data recovery programs I have tried only work with recognized disks. I would really appreciate any advice. I have an awful lot of data on the disk. Free solutions are preferable as I don’t have any money at the moment. Thank you for any help offered.
The drive does not work in other computers, the same problem occurs.
The spinning noise is repetitive. I.e. it sounds as if it is trying to do the same thing over and over again.
I’m not a tech-head… so I need simple-ish instructions.
Thanks guys.
I have attempted to use "Recover My Files" recovery software, but unfortunately it is reporting errors reading all the sectors on the disc.
It’s not looking good… any further help??
Thanks

i have an older maxtor 300 GB external drive …

the partition was deleted from another computer but the files are still there .. i used a free trial sofware to see if they still existed..

my question is …

since maxtor was taken over by seagate … which software should i use to recover my files????

which is the easiest recovery software to use to get the job done????

will "seagate file recovery" work well for me??

thanx in advance!!

Please do not attempt to answer this unless you are a techie or are sure you know what you are talking about! I am a techie myself.
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QUESTION: I have machine with 5 drives. One was perfectly healthy until I bumped the computer into something hard while it was running. Now the I get the message "F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." I suspect a read or write error took place - I don’t believe the whole disc suddenly became corrupted. I would like to run some recovery software. I prefer to run it from inside Windows (not at boot time). Can you recommend a software to use?

The hardrive was crashed. I have tried to use a recovery disc , Mini PC , to get the data but I could not because the system could not detect the hardrive. Any body know other recovery software or any store ( in Bay area , California ) can help .
Thanks and very appreciate your answer

compaq persario. recovery software from the cd, not from the hidden recovery partition. also, i have office 2007 (genuine), how will it know i’m installing it on the same computer and not another computer? i only have 3 liecenses and i have 3 computers.

I have a hard drive with a lot of data on it my windows xp comp can’t see.

I downloaded recovery software, thought it was free but has very limited capabilities unless it is upgraded. The software sees the hard drive, sees the files but it costs and arm and a leg to purchase the upgrade (really hate it when it says freeware but it ends up costing). I think this is a simple problem that the hard drive lost the hard drive map, or something like that and just needs it rebuilt.

Do you know of a recovery software that is free? I mean, really free.

Thanks for helping.

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Need a full backup of the 320 Gb disk. If anyone has done this before. What are the exact steps I shall follow?
I had a few logical drives with different filesystems, how do I make sure the recovery software interprets this correctly!