How to open my files on an external hard drive without formatting?

Bakersaver32 · Jun 19, 2013

My external hard drive always works fine on my computer. But, it has got some issues yesterday. After plunging it to my computer, it always asked me to format it. But, this drive was my backup drive. Most of my important data, including some precious photos and videos, business document and private files, is all saved there. So, could you help me open these files without formatting? I don’t want to lose any of them. Thank you!

Dr_JRE · Jun 19, 2013

Download System Rescue CD. It contains a tool "Testdisk" that can check the drive for recoverable errors. worste case scenario, it also includes a program called photorec which can recover lost data.

www.sysresccd.org

Download the ISO file and burn it to a disk using Windows Image Burner (right click, burn image to disk) or use ImgBurn.

Boot the computer with the CD in the drive (if the computer boots to windows, you may need to enter the BIOS to change the boot order so CD gets checked before hard drive. power on your computer and look for a message telling you how to enter BIOS or system setup. usually F2, Del, Delete, F10 or control)

Run Testdisk

Dr_JRE · Jun 23, 2013

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I do NOT recommend searching the net for free data recovery software, this is one of the best ways to get a virus.

Seatools for DOS is a great recommendation if the drive is made by Seagate or one of its child companies.

S.M.A.R.T. Tools:
Seagate & Samsung: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/

Western Digital: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3

Hitachi: http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads/

Recovery tools: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
(use Testdisk to check for recoverable problems and SmartMonTools to check the physical health of the disk, PhotoRec to recover data if the drive is toast.)

AlTeX · Jan 6, 2015

You don't need to download any software to do this.....
Try this:
- Open CMD ( Command Prompt ) as administrator.
- Then type 'CHKDSK X:/F' without commas ( replace 'X' with the letter of the drive which you want to fix )
- Wait till it is complete.....
- Then, the CMD window will close.....wait a little longer.....and your HDD directory will open automatically.
- Then, it is done! All your files ( and, probably, your hard disk too ) are back to normal again.
I hope this works for you.....it works perfectly for me.

waley · Mar 14, 2015

AlTeX :

You don't need to download any software to do this.....
Try this:
- Open CMD ( Command Prompt ) as administrator.
- Then type 'CHKDSK X:/F' without commas ( replace 'X' with the letter of the drive which you want to fix )
- Wait till it is complete.....
- Then, the CMD window will close.....wait a little longer.....and your HDD directory will open automatically.
- Then, it is done! All your files ( and, probably, your hard disk too ) are back to normal again.
I hope this works for you.....it works perfectly for me.

waley · Mar 14, 2015

please what the programming code for external command

rito75 · May 23, 2015

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