Well, I have a somewhat similar problem that I need help with:

I have a Barracuda ES 750GB drive I brought back home from the desktop I left overseas. It was, I believe, set as DYNAMIC, but after setting it with an external enclosure, the drive is not readable, as in, it has no drive letter assigned to it, so cannot be accessed.(there is USB mass storage driver icon, which shows the external device works) The drive is not corrupted (I hope so), but I have no idea how to enable it.

*** Problem Solved with Google & TestDisk 6.9. ***

This post has been edited by trencher10: Jun 12 2008, 02:22 PM

i lost my 180G data in 200G hardisk. i tried R-Studio and managed to retrieve the data back. Unfortunately, not all recovered. some files corrupted. Especially my precious pictures but better than nothing

now, another prob get in. when i tried to copy files into the hardisk from other PC, it seem all success.
but when i pluged into my PC again, the data wasnt there. no space usage of hardisk. but it's actually there when i scanned with R-Studio.. y ma??

for me u can try this 1 of software
Easy Recovery Profesional
u just download form internet
after u download u need chose
-data recovery
-advanced recovery

normaly that can find ur data
but not accordingly
even or format ur harddisk also
can retrieve


good luck

Hie all..i heard there are a place in berjaya times square that u can send ur HD for data recovery. Anyone knows the name of the place? I reckon it should be somehwhere near cycom?

Yesterday I have done two mistakes, turn on and off my external hard drive in a short period of time and also remove it from the computer without safely remove hardware because it always hang. Now it is unreadable and corrupted. Can anyone suggest me any software to use? Or is there any shop in Klang Valley that can fix, repair and recover data from a broken external hard drive? Any information and help would very much appreciated. I have too much important data in the 500gb external hard drive! Thanks in advance!

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Added on June 29, 2008, 8:42 amWhich one of these software is the bestest?

Stellar Phoenix
GetDataBack
Zero Assumption Recovery
R-Studio
Restorer2000 Pro
Activ@
Recuva
Nukleus Kernel
Virtual Lab

Or are there any other big names that I missed?

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Added on July 2, 2008, 5:49 amHave you format the corrupted hard disk after successfully restored all your data from it?

This post has been edited by adammale: Jul 2 2008, 05:53 AM

go for r studio...theres a shop infront of mph...at bkt raja..they do data retrieval....but i dont know if the shop it still there cause it was a year ago

i have 64mb pendrive just for document backup purpose only
after try this software (http://www.idsecuritysuite.com/products/id-usb-lock-key.htm)
my pendrive display error message when to access.
pls insert a disk into drive f:\ appear after i double click it...

already remove the software but still can't access it...
try it at another pc, the error message still appeared...

already used stellar software but still can't resolved...
anyone know how to resolve it? TQ in advance...

Yes. I've format the hardisk. there are 2 partitions. 1 i format with quick format and another with regular format. if the problem caused by that "quick format" partition, why is it affect the "regular format" partition 1?

try testdisk, see if it can detect your pen drive.

I got problem with my 80 GB SATA SEAGATE. I did two partition on it. One now can be read and the other one can't . Went to LYP, they say they have to charge me rm 500++ for data recovery!!.. That is like ripping me... in the end they just reformat it for me... Lost all my data.... is it possible for me to get back the data?..... Like what you can do to your data when you deleted them from recycle bin???

Cally

I suggest you to use R-Studio recovery software. Worked like a charm for me as I just recovered my 90gb partition last night.

Suddenly my bios cant detect the hdd anymore. Is my hdd dead already? Just after i restarted it. I can hear it spinning at the beginning but after that bios cant detect it. Help me.

Hi, any sifu can recommend partition os for vista 32bit, thanks in advance.

You can try to use acronis disk director.

i have one problem here. i just bought a 60gb hard disc and when i try to format it , i couldn't
find the partition in BIOS.
plus when i try to format in bios , the loading was so long and took like 5-10minutes.
any solution?

If you could not find the partition,
how are you going to format it?
Does you means sometimes you find it sometimes not?

I suggest you to change your IDE/SATA cable and check whether the partition is detectable or not.
If still undetectable. That means your HDD is at the end of its life.

Thanks

Didn't see this thread until i format my drive. Same problem, disk drive changed from basic to dynamic. Gonna get a recovery program, hopefully can recover some files.

Hi there,
you should have refer here
some of the topic for dynamic and basic hdd is discuss and the thread above is one of those which are full of information with sufficient link provided for understanding.

Thanks

Thx for the linky, am still recovering data, total estimated time ~ 12hrs. Guess it's about time to replace that P4.

Hi there,
your post noted.
Hopefully you manage to get your stuff back ya.
Any issue please highlight.
Thanks