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Panic mode: HD not working
Clannad_92:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on January 16, 2012, 09:46:56 PM ---So I have my external WD hard drive 1 TB. . .prolly 600 GB full of anime. . . anyways suddenly it stopped working. . .it started by slowing down. . .after a while it would sometimes freeze when I browsed tru the folders and suddenly now it wants to reformat cause I cant use it if I dont format it first. . .so I took it out of the enclosure and put it into my PC, now . . .I know theres 600 GB of anime in there. . .and Im in the disk manager on windows, and it shows 930 GB unallocated space. . .I can add a "new simple volume" with the max capacity but . . .Im afraid if I do that it will reformat the drive and erase all my info which I am too scared to do. . .
I could try one of those data-recovery programs but I dont have anywhere to store 600 GB of data. . .
any takers?
Im in a little state of panic TBH
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hey, i know how you feel right now...i also experience that bad thing last year...
i felt relieve when i remember that i have backup...
so, i dont wanna scare you but in my case it no luck...but, i think there someone who manage to save all of his data...
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 17, 2012, 08:16:41 AM ---Heh, chill out a bit, man, and stop thinking about what could happen and focus on what to do. For starters, formatting the disk will not actually wipe it. It will just mark the whole disk as free space. If formatting actually went through and wrote zeros throughout the drive, you would be waiting for several hours, because that is basically a 1TB write.
A Windows quick format will result in a disk that appears to be empty. The data should all still be there; it's just no longer recognized as used space. Once you have a disk you can read, use a data recovery program (lots online; try some of the ones suggested in this thread) and scan the disk. Just make sure you format it to the exact same filesystem as it was before (NTFS or FAT32).
Hope someone can confirm all of this.
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Still, DO NOT format it except as a last resort. if the data is still all there, it will be there regardless of whether you reformat it or not, and the more changes you make to the disk, the more data you are potentially losing. Try those recovery programs first.
AceHigh:
Partition Magic can set a new format without deleting the files. It will take a while though.
NaRu:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on January 17, 2012, 04:19:56 PM ---Partition Magic can set a new format without deleting the files. It will take a while though.
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+1
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: NaRu on January 17, 2012, 05:40:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on January 17, 2012, 04:19:56 PM ---Partition Magic can set a new format without deleting the files. It will take a while though.
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+1
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elaborate on that please. . .
from what Im understanding I can:
grab my 1 TB drive and make a 400 GB partition in which I can store 400 GB of the lost data in the other partition (so this program uses only empty space to make the partition?)
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