how to recover external hard disk?

Question

when i plug in my external hard disk, firstly it doesn't come out the name that i named the hard disk as. secondly there's totally no files inside, BUT when i check the capacity of the hard disk, it states there that there is 134GB free of 465 GB. which i have no idea what that means, I NEED ALL MY FILES BACK, because it is very important. please someone help me.

Answer 1

Don't be too worried about it. There is a way to recover your pictures and music. But first of all please don't save any files to card before you get your files back.

Then you need to rely on some recovery tools. A popular one is Asoftech Recovery. This program is quite skillful to get back deleted files due to accidental deletion or formatting without technical skills. Here is the steps you may find helpful:

1. Download this program here, http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

Install the application on your computer. Then connect your card to your computer. as usual under My Computer the drive letter assigned to the external drive(usually Drive G: or Drive H:).

2. Start Asoftech Photo Recovery, then click on settings on top right part of the program, check all and click OK.

3. Select the drive letter that assigned to your card, click "Start". Now the scanning process will start automatically to find your deleted files. After a while you will get a lot of recoverable files.

3. Preview the found pictures to see if your deleted ones are there. If they are, select the pictures you want and perform full recovery to get all them back.

Answer 2

You will need to recover the data using something like 001 picture recovery program.

http://www.001-software.com/resource/restore-external-hdd-photos.html

I've had to use it many times in the past but in this case you need to take out the hard drive from broken laptop and put it into a Windows computer as an external drive or slave drive and run the software from there. It will rebuild the drive and hopefully recover the files.

Answer 3

I suggest you change your view settings to show hidden files. If 2/3 of the drive is full but you don't see anything, the files/folders are probably set as hidden. Also you could try reading the hard drive from a Linux boot disk such as Ubuntu.

Answer 4

Your data is stll there. I don't bother with fancy unpredictable software:

1. Remove the drive from it's housing.

2. reconnect as second drive (borrow a standalone if yours is a laptop)

3. Backup or simply copy what you need.

4. Format the drive.

5. Copy your stuff back.

6. Replace drive in housing.

Steps 5. and 6. are of course interchangeable.

Bingo.

Answer 5

Most probably your hard disk is corrupted. You can try the software R STUDIO to recover your lost files from your corrupted hard disk.

Answer 6

You can try to recover your files from external HDD with Easy Drive Data Recovery software:



http://www.munsoft.com/EasyDriveDataRecovery/



It uses unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect.

Answer 7

Try xcopy.

Go into command prompt (cmd.exe with admin rights).



xcopy (source)\ (destination) -s -c



EXAMPLE:



xcopy E:\ C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\BackupCopies -s -c



-s states all directories

-c states that windows will ignore error messages



Take a look on microsoft, type xcopy into google if your confused about how to do this.