Re: Somebody help! - Sudden massive loss of data from an external
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:26:10 -0700
B. Chernick wrote:
Yes I copied most of it. There were a few items that I cut and pasted. Even so, that shouldn't result in total data loss. I've already tried 2 data recovery programs and they can't see anything, Maxtor's own 'File Recovery for windows' (it won't even allow me to scan the disk), and File Recover 6.1 (which I'm running a physical scan with and apparently will take some time.)
Is this just dumb bad luck or are USB drives really this unreliable? I've been using them for years and this have never happened to me before.
Also, if anyone has any favorite recovery utilities they'd like to suggest, please do.
USB drives are usually not unreliable. Of course, the external hard drive itself may have failed and this may have nothing to do with unplugging it while data was being written to it. Hard drives do fail sometimes which is why I like a layered approach to backup; i.e., files backed up to an external hard drive frequently and then a DVD-R backup created once a month.
You can test your hard drive with the Maxtor hard drive utility or contact Maxtor tech support for your next step.
For data recovery, I use Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro but it is expensive. R-Studio has been recommended by people I respect and it is less than Ontrack's app.
Malke
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