Hello Forum members,
I'm in real trouble and all my crucial data of over 6 years is at stake... Pls help me and pls help me out of this situation, I'm in real trouble.
This is in continuation from my previous post at :
http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/42422.html
I have my 80 GB Seagate Barracuda external harddisk inserted in a USB casing. IT has 4 paritions. Some time back, one of the partition became inaccessible... The partition's format changed from FAT32 to RAW and it became absolutely inaccessible. Some good fellow on this forum suggested me to try Getdataback... I did... it recovered all files... BUT.. none of the file was accessible... All recovered text files including html files contain unreadible binary data.. and thus none of the recovered files are usable...
In this way, the 1st partition was dead... Yesterday night.. it happened with another partition and now I've lost all my important data on those 2 partitions... This happened while I was creating a copy of all data on this harddisk on one of my desktops... Luckily I had taken out almost 70% of the data out from the 2nd partition... But.. during the same process... There was a small sound of HEAVY ACCESS from the harddisk... and the Data-Access LED on the casing changed to permanent RED from GREEN ( Whenever there's a data access, the Green changes to Red during that time) .. Now the LED became RED consistently... and thus, I felt something was wrong again... The data transfer stopped.... I waiting for 2 mins... and then... I powered-off the harddisk and powered it on back again... only to find that the partition from which I was taking out all data had become inaccessible same as the 1st one...
Nowthe scene is, there are other 2 partitions that are alive at the moment... Have to take out data from them too.. But I fear that if I start the same process, then those two partitions may also crash or whatever and thus become inaccessible....
I don't know what's going on with my Harddisk. I'm not a hardware guy... Don't know if somethink like parition table has become currupt or what has happened to my harddisk... But what I do and what I've heard is... There are people that can extract data even from Formatted harddisks...
Gurus, please help me in this scenario... All my highly crucial data and files are at stake and I'm going to loose all my 6 years old assets... This will take away all my assets, all my softwares, all my developed codes, programs, scripts, tutorials, notes, work done and everything... I counld't even sleep peacefully yesterday night.. and since morning, I can't even eat... Pls help me and pls give me the true right suggestion as to what I should do from here... I'm scared to talk to any hardware guy... I'm scared that if he did something wrong as an experimental attempt to recover my data, I may loose all data and God knows what will happen to me...
Pls help me...
Will be thankful to you for my whole life...
Pls provide me just the right suggestion ... Pls ask me any question if you want to ask me..
Pls let me know if the data is truly recoverable or I may loose some data...I truly keep hope that the data can be recovered... If they recover data even from formatted harddisks, then hopefully my harddisk can be recovered too... Pls tell me...Pls help...
Somewhere I heard that if I take the HD out of the casing and connect it to the IDE cable and make it a slave, then the disk will become accessible... Gurus, pls let me know if this is possible and if this is safe and no risks involved.. Pls help..
With all my thanks,
Waiting for help,
James Anderosn.
