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My 1TB external HD has suddenly decided to stop working, and my computer's only advice is, in SMB jargon, to 'format the fucker'.

Now, I don't want to do this, as I fancy trying to retrieve the data as it's got some pretty important stuff on it.

Anyone got any clue how I can do this?

*Awaits mocking suggestions*
 
Get a drive recovery program.

If they don't fully fix them they usually at least allow you to pull all your porn off it so you don't lose it all.
 
My 1TB external HD has suddenly decided to stop working, and my computer's only advice is, in SMB jargon, to 'format the fucker'.

Now, I don't want to do this, as I fancy trying to retrieve the data as it's got some pretty important stuff on it.

Anyone got any clue how I can do this?

*Awaits mocking suggestions*

what sort of pretty important stuff there mate?
 
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Trying this now.

It's doing summit at the minute but I've nee bastard idea what :neutral:



Holiday photos, work documents, etc.

Loads of music and tv shows/films which will be retrievable but still a fanny on if I have to do that.

No porn, I promise :lol:

It's analysing all the sectors of your hard drive for raw data that it can hopefully retrieve. Make sure you've got plenty of space on another drive to dump it onto. It won't output to the same drive it's recovering from for obvious reasons.
 
Trying this now.

It's doing summit at the minute but I've nee bastard idea what :neutral:



Holiday photos, work documents, etc.

Loads of music and tv shows/films which will be retrievable but still a fanny on if I have to do that.

No porn, I promise :lol:

aye mate, sometimes those cherished holiday snaps can be all that's left if a loved one is snatched suddenly. try and get them retrieved mate.
 
It's analysing all the sectors of your hard drive for raw data that it can hopefully retrieve. Make sure you've got plenty of space on another drive to dump it onto. It won't output to the same drive it's recovering from for obvious reasons.

Shite :lol:

Looks like I'm gunna have to go buy another 1TB drive...
 
Not got much space on your other drives like?

Do the restore in parts and archive off to DVD.

Nowhere near enough.

Laptop is on its arse, which is why I shifted everything over and saved all new stuff there, some sort of irony in all this :-(

Reckon I should do this, or just send it down the local computer shop and let them sort it?
 
Or borrow a mates external and bung it all on there while you sort yersell out a new laptop.

Could be a plan like aye.

I'm wondering what exactly has gone wrong, I haven't had the HD on for two weeks and now it's suddenly gone kaput.

Tried it on another laptop and it's still not working, but I'm wondering whether when I plugged it back into my own nearly knackered laptop that's what's fucked it somehow...
 
Try 'Recuva' if that prog doesn't work. It's free and I have had excellent results with it. You will still need somewhere to save the recovered files to though.
 
Try 'Recuva' if that prog doesn't work. It's free and I have had excellent results with it. You will still need somewhere to save the recovered files to though.

Tried it.

Did a recover for the external HD and almost all of the stuff was corrupted and unrecoverable.

Decided to scan laptop HD and amazingly it found loads of the photos I'm on about. Managed to recover them, but now it won't let me open anything, even though all the files are there, etc., whenever I try to open a photo I get the following:

Photo gallery can't open this photo or video. The file may be unsupported, damaged or corrupted.

SO f***ing ANNOYING
 
Nee use unless u get the pics back but you should look at Google's Picasaweb storage, $20/year for 80Gb storage, so u dont ever loose pics again!
 
Nee use unless u get the pics back but you should look at Google's Picasaweb storage, $20/year for 80Gb storage, so u dont ever loose pics again!

Not f***ing helping :lol:

Nah but, provided I get them back, I'll be doing that so cheers.

Now looking at ways to fix corrupted JPEGs, I'm sick of my f***ing life here :lol:
 
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