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corrupt USB drive, how to recover data |
ofiaich
Joined: Nov 12, 2001
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From: East Yorkshire, England
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Hi everyone!
that's it in a nutshell!
Friends Iomega usb drive was working perfectly and now she gets the emssage t format it,
Any ideas on what to do, besides pressing yes to format 
Ofiaich
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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Tried another computer?
You can try scandisk to fix it.
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ofiaich
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From: East Yorkshire, England
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Hi tranced!
Yes,
tried on my own computer,
and Scandisk will not run, 
esato since Nov, 12, 2001 |
tranced
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How come it won't run? Is yours broken?
Try to restart the computer with the usb plugged in. It might prompt to run the scandisk when starting up windows.
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lukechris
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If it is asking you to format, it is a corrupt file system, very unlikely there's anything I can do.
ALWAYS KEEP A BACKUP. I can't stress that enough
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ofiaich
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OK tranced, I will give that a go..
Hi lukechris, not my drive!! My friends, but fortunately, I told her to make back ups and to store data elsewhere, so she has only lost a few files,
If I format it, what's to say the problem will not return? We both bought one of these a few months back,
Oh! I do have a MacBook Pro to try it on..
Ofiaich
esato since Nov, 12, 2001 |
lukechris
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Try it in a Linux live CD, and see what gParted says
That's all I can suggest
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ofiaich
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thanks, but don't have access to that...
Might ask my friend to find the receipt, and then see if the PC-World can run any data restoring software..
esato since Nov, 12, 2001 |
lukechris
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What, the Tech Guys? I wouldn't, haha, most unreliable "technicians" I've ever known xD
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ofiaich
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From: East Yorkshire, England
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thats why I added at the end of my post 
a reboot of my PC did not make Scandisk work!
[ This Message was edited by: ofiaich on 2010-12-06 21:06 ] esato since Nov, 12, 2001 |
tranced
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I thought you had a windows pc.
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ofiaich
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Hi tranced,
I have a Windows XP desktop PC and a MacBook Pro !
But neither would recover the errors on that drive.
Ofiaich 
esato since Nov, 12, 2001 |
number1
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you could try this , http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ , it worked for me it doesn't recover everthing but recovers a few things well, theres probley a cracked version somewhere on the web aswell.
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ofiaich
Joined: Nov 12, 2001
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From: East Yorkshire, England
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Hi number1,
thanks. I restored the boot sector and can now see the directories.
Some directories have all files intact,
Some have some of the files intact, and some still trashed,
and some directories still have all files trashed.
I am trying another program, Pandora and will try this one later,
Ofiaich
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