Cyclic redundancy check error

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lad79

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I have a Freecom 250Gb external hard drive however I have recently encountered difficulty in accessing the data on the drive. When connected via USB, the drive is not identified in 'Computer'. I've tried to allocate the drive in Disk Management however it fails to initialize the disk due to a cyclic redundancy error.

Am I looking at permanently lost data or does anyone know how to save it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
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smorizio

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The data might be gone if the drive failed. Also what you did in windows let windows format the drive. I the drive started to work it would have been empty. I would break the ext drive case open and try the drive connected to the pc. If your lucky it may be the control board in the ext drive that went bad and your data still there. If not your better off sending the drive into a data lab to recover your data. There are a few free software like recovia from ccleaner company that may get the data off if the drive is still working somewhat. If the logic board failed or the heads they have to be replaced or there going to damage the drive data.
 
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