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FrizzleFried:
...have you met that famous computer expert BEN DOVER?

You have now.  You're screwed.

SavannahLion:
Depending on why the drive is behaving like that, there's a good chance you can recover the data off of it.

However, depending on the value of the data vs the amount of effort and time you want to put into saving the data, it's sometimes better to get a new drive and re-obtain the data from wherever you got it.

If you're OK with drive recovery, you need to determine whether the failure is due to hardware or some glitch on the software side or something truly annoying like virii trouncing you. Recovery varies from reason to reason and to discover the correct recovery method requires research... lots of it.

Whatever path you take, don't try to save any more data to the drive or format it. it'll make problems worse. If you try to recover the data, no matter what, have a second drive on hand to transfer the data as soon as it's retrievable. Don't "revive" the drive and go back to using it like before, that's an open invitation to a psychotic break down.

Which reminds me, I should update my toolset. Tried to recover a POS Compaq a couple of months ago but I didn't have the appropriate software to even see the damn thing. Damn legacy crap. :banghead:

lcddream:
connect it to a windows xp machine and  in the command prompt run:

chkdsk <your drive letter>: /f

then run

chkdsk <your drive letter>: /r

if you already tried this then sorry can't help.

only other thing to try is data recovery software

whatzcrackn:
Any suggestions on a program??

SavannahLion:
If the drive is being used on a Windows computer, then start with lcddream's advice.

No offense to you. I realized last night that if you were using Linux or Apple, you wouldn't be here asking that question.

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