Help! Hard Drive Problems!

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I have a buffalo 250GB external drive that has worked fine for a few months,
and then, today, as I was letting a friend using Ubuntu (Linux) copy files
off, he told me he was having problems copying. Well, after we unplugged the
drive from his computer and into mine, we were shocked to see only a small
handfull of files appear. Show Hidden Folders is on, and the properties of
the drive showed that all the data was still there. I was still able to
navigate to different directories, by changing the path in explorer, so the
files still existed, but were not showing up.

We tried restarting computers, drives, reloading, disabling and re-enabling
Hidden Folders, to no avail. We set it to defrag and when I returned, the
files and folders were all back! I unplugged the drive and brought it to my
computer, only to hear XP complain "The file or directory is corrupt and
unreadable" . Now, the drive properties says it was no capacity and no data
on it, and that it's only RAW data.

Is there any way to save the data?
 
JH2215 said:
I have a buffalo 250GB external drive that has worked fine for a few
months,
and then, today, as I was letting a friend using Ubuntu (Linux) copy files
off, he told me he was having problems copying. Well, after we unplugged
the
drive from his computer and into mine, we were shocked to see only a small
handfull of files appear. Show Hidden Folders is on, and the properties of
the drive showed that all the data was still there. I was still able to
navigate to different directories, by changing the path in explorer, so
the
files still existed, but were not showing up.

We tried restarting computers, drives, reloading, disabling and
re-enabling
Hidden Folders, to no avail. We set it to defrag and when I returned, the
files and folders were all back! I unplugged the drive and brought it to
my
computer, only to hear XP complain "The file or directory is corrupt and
unreadable" . Now, the drive properties says it was no capacity and no
data
on it, and that it's only RAW data.

Is there any way to save the data?
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If this external drive works OK on your friend's computer why can't you copy
the files back to his PC then format the Buffalo? You can't reverse
defragging of the external drive as far as I know. Other than that it looks
like data recovery software or services, this might help:
http://www.get-data-back.com/
 
JH2215 said:
I have a buffalo 250GB external drive that has worked fine for a few months,
and then, today, as I was letting a friend using Ubuntu (Linux) copy files
off, he told me he was having problems copying. Well, after we unplugged the
drive from his computer and into mine, we were shocked to see only a small
handfull of files appear. Show Hidden Folders is on, and the properties of
the drive showed that all the data was still there. I was still able to
navigate to different directories, by changing the path in explorer, so the
files still existed, but were not showing up.

We tried restarting computers, drives, reloading, disabling and re-enabling
Hidden Folders, to no avail. We set it to defrag and when I returned, the
files and folders were all back! I unplugged the drive and brought it to my
computer, only to hear XP complain "The file or directory is corrupt and
unreadable" . Now, the drive properties says it was no capacity and no data
on it, and that it's only RAW data.

Is there any way to save the data?
Click to expand...


it's easy man , do windows scandisk and defragment on ur external-disk and
every thing will be OK
 
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