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March 21st 10, 03:51 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using
as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, REALLY good. I'll have some of that!" 
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March 21st 10, 04:10 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:51:10 -0700, Daniel Prince wrote:
I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. Pooh sayz you are in the deep poo. Yank talk = you're ****ed. -- - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
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March 21st 10, 04:22 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Daniel Prince wrote:
I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, REALLY good. I'll have some of that!" First, make a sector image to a different drive. Then work on that. The risk of doing more damage when working on the only copy is high. Side note: Data you have only one copy of, you could as well have no copy of. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
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March 21st 10, 04:23 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
From: "Daniel Prince"
| I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using | as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is | unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that | sector 92 is unreadable. | I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I | suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible | through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that | I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. Did you run SeaGate SeaTools on it ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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March 21st 10, 04:43 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
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@ca.rr.com says... I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Ideally, run the testdisk program from the location you want to save your files (ie a removable drive, or another disk drive) - as that's where it'll save everything. From the sounds of it, TestDisk will get all your data back, perhaps less a file or two from the damaged area. -- Duncan.
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March 21st 10, 05:12 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
Daniel Prince wrote
I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? You dont say how it was formatted. If it was formatted NTFS, you can find that a Linux live CD can see the data on the drive when Win claims that its unformatted. If that doesnt work, I like Easy Recovery Pro myself, but it isnt free unless you steal it.
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March 21st 10, 07:33 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
Daniel Prince wrote:
I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY, REALLY good. I'll have some of that!" Use a Live Linux CD to boot up the Computer and see if you can see the drive. If you can then you should be able to copy the files to a DVD using the burner on the live linux CD. I have done this once for a friend in desparate need of her Tax data, and was surprised just how easy it was to do. I used Knopix version 3.6 which I still cary around in my software toolkit. MAKE BACKUPS IF ALL YOUR DATA - even the data on your Memory stick. I lost data (a lot of notes) when my Corsair Memory stick failed. I got a new one under its 3 year warranty but that did not replace the notes I lost. Maurice helwig
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#8
March 21st 10, 10:19 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I
suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? Thank you in advance for all replies. Is it still accessible? Back up IMMEDIATELY! -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33.1 ^ ^ 18:20:01 up 4 days 45 min 2 users load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa
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#9
March 21st 10, 11:25 AM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
"Rod Speed" wrote:
Daniel Prince wrote I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? You dont say how it was formatted. If it was formatted NTFS, you can find that a Linux live CD can see the data on the drive when Win claims that its unformatted. It was formatted NTFS. Which version of Linux live CD do you recommend? If that doesnt work, I like Easy Recovery Pro myself, but it isnt free unless you steal it. -- I don't understand why they make gourmet cat foods. I have known many cats in my life and none of them were gourmets. They were all gourmands!
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March 21st 10, 12:59 PM
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Seagate 300 gig IDE drive seen as unformatted
From: "Daniel Prince"
| "Rod Speed" wrote: Daniel Prince wrote I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using as a data drive. Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is unformatted. When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that sector 92 is unreadable. I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up. I suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible through Windows. Is there a good freeware or shareware program that I can use to access my data? You dont say how it was formatted. If it was formatted NTFS, you can find that a Linux live CD can see the data on the drive when Win claims that its unformatted. | It was formatted NTFS. Which version of Linux live CD do you | recommend? Did you run SeaGate SeaTools like I asked ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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