ok, first of few weeks ago i bought a WD 1.5TB and a dual HD docking station. the 1.5 TB was installed and formatted from the beginning (took about 2 days) and was ntfs. didnt use it for about a week but still had it plugged in. then needed to do some organizing of files on all my HD transferring a great amount of data over to the new one (TB), everything worked fine for a few days or so, could access it and run files off it no problem, ( did notice that before storing anything on the TB at times it wouldnt recognize and "install" right off the bat) like my other external drives. then all of a sudden one day while computer was on, it would reconize it , but when i tryed to access it it would now require format to read it. why !!! when i open up my Acronis Disk Suit my drive reads ' disk 6 ------------ None - (E) pri,act. 468.8 Gig FS: none partition: 0x7 (ntfs/hpsf) Unallocated 931.5 Gig Unallocated so...... now im stumped , i had never seen this before, and i need to atleast recover my files. is there any programs i can use to help me do this ?? i have tryed some but obviously the drive is recognized as 'RAW' i dont wanna loose all newly transferred data for i have deleted thee original files from there location. please any help please please please THANXX
try connecting the drive directly to the motherboard & do a chkdsk to find & possibly correct any errors. did that on a laptop drive as c:drive parrition was corrupted so connected it to customer's tower which found the drive & corruption that it fixed. saved me from doing a reload of windows. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?id=38&sort=0 http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/ http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collect...oads/files.html http://www.easeus.com/ http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm http://www.pcinspector.de/download.asp?language=1#file_recovery http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
i will try , but when i when i try to do a chkdsk thogh programs or CMD it is not recognized because it is a RAW drive. Thanxx , i will keep informed , if any other new news dawns please do inform
just a quick update , RIGHT NOW , the to ex hd i had connected in my dual docking station just ( almost ) did the the same thing , all of a sudden the drives disconnected , and then tried to reconnect and a pop up told me that they needed formatting to read, did it a couple times , while i was just sitting here , so i jumped up and hit the power button on the docking station and ejected the drives , reconnected one of them in one of my external enclosures and it reads it , also noticed that the hd's where extremely hot , could my problem spawn from a over heating corruption malfunction with the NexStar dual docking station ?? any thought s or further help ?
missed out ------ i had 2 drives in , and the pop up reconnect did it about 3 times and gave me multiple 'format' promps
