Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
not sure whats happend, i think my data stick has f**ked its self, no idea how or why, when i plug it into my mac it says not reADABLE, on my pc it coes up as not formated. This is real bad it has all my work on, backups were over a month ago, which means thirs useless. Is there anyway to restore it? or copy data, im really s**ting myself right now
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[ This Message was edited by: lukebonathan on 2006-02-05 17:02 ]
Posted by Cycovision
Right-click on the drive in 'My Compter', select 'properties', click on the 'tools' tab and press the 'Check Now' button under 'Error Checking'. Make sure that you tick both checkboxes then click 'Start'.
Then cross your fingers and toes, say a few prayers and hope for the best
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
i dont have a tools tab?
Posted by Cycovision
Errr... You should have!
Right click on 'my computer', select properties, then the hardware tab, then device manager and make sure it hasn't got a cross or exclaimation mark next to it.
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
nope, and no crosses either
Posted by Cycovision
Ok, does it show up in disk management? Right click my computer, click 'manage', double click on 'storage' and then 'disk management'
Does it show up in there at all and if it does, does it say it's formatted, healthy, active or whatever?
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
comes up in there and shows healty and shows the size etc, when i click properties on the icon in my computer it shoes 0mb, i just founf the error thing, but nothing coems up
Posted by whistla
Try a free data recovery program. Just look on google and try that
Posted by Cycovision
What, so you can get the error checking tab but nothing happens when you try to select it?
It's a good sign that windows is seeing the device as healthy anyway. It might be worth trying to do the error checking thing on a different PC if you can. Other than that, there's a load of data recovery software that you can download here:
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Search/data_recovery.html
I haven't tried any of them so be VERY carefull. The golden rule with data recovery is to use the device as little as possible until you find a promising looking tool or utility. If the data is very, very important you'd probably be better off sending it to a specialist company like http://www.disklabs.com/ rather than trying to do it yourself.