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Name: leeman
Date: April 4, 2006 at 11:52:44 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
CPU/Ram: 512M
Product: Dell Inspiron 6000
Comment:

I have a Maxtor external hard disk. I unpluged it from desktop and pluged in (USB) to my laptop. My laptop could see the harddisk, but When I tried open the harddisk, it said I/O error. Then I unpluged the harddisk, pluged back to desktop, the desktop can see the harddisk, but when I tried open the harddisk, it said the hard disk is unformated. But I just used and all my data in there.
Is the harddisk failed? Can I get my data back?

Thanks

leeman



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Response Number 1
Name: ham30
Date: April 4, 2006 at 12:03:48 Pacific
Reply:

Your data is probably still there, but it 'might' take a file recovery program to retrieve it.


Sorry, I do not check for private messages


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Response Number 2
Name: GX1 Man
Date: April 4, 2006 at 17:56:08 Pacific
Reply:

All hard drives die eventually and they are not an appropriate place to save important data. CD or DVD backup is better.

There are sure a lot of horror stories about external hard drives becoming non-functional on these boards, by the way.


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Response Number 3
Name: Ed Rogers
Date: April 4, 2006 at 18:01:22 Pacific
Reply:

guess iwont go get that external 500gb disk i was thinking bout then eh lol

try a program called "File Recoverer" worked wonders for me


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Response Number 4
Name: leeman
Date: April 5, 2006 at 02:16:20 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks

leeman


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