Hello, here is what's going on:
I had a linux file server setup. Connected to this was a 1TB HD connected through one of of the USB sata external docks.
The linux machine died (and so did the dock), and I decided to use the HD in my main tower for extra storage, but also so that I could access the files.
It was fat32 format I knew, but I just stuck it in anyways, figured I would mess with it.
Well windows mounted it as the J
backup) drive and I could open it, and go a couple of folder levels deep.
When I tried to open a folder that had files in it, it stopped responding for a long period and then said I had to format it before I could use it. I didn't want to lose my data so I tried to do a convert J: FS/NTFS - it had some error about it not being a correct volume or some such thing.
I downloaded a data recovery utility to see if I could do something with that, and while it was scanning, tried the 'convert' again. It said it couldn't gain exclusive access to the disk because it was in use, and offered to convert it when I next restarted.
I said yes, restarted. and now it is not showing up!
It shows in the bios and device manager. When I check the properties tab it says that it isn't initialized, but I see no option to do so (besides I need to recover my data).
So, I start screwing around with diskpart, and I try to create a partition on it because it says it has no partitions that I could assign a drive letter to.
Well when I try that process I get a CRC error. I wanted to run a chkdsk on it, but I can't unless it has a drive letter.
I downloaded a couple of tools to try and recover any partitions, but they need to scan, and the estimate was up to something like 23 hundred thousand minutes or something.
Before I let it run and scan and tie up my computer processes for so long, am I even barking up the right tree?
ANY advice is well appreciated.
I am close to just sending it to a data recovery service at this point.
Another thought, are there any good data recovery tools that will recover the data of of the disk and burn them onto a CD? I don't have enough room on my other HD's to recover the data to.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
I had a linux file server setup. Connected to this was a 1TB HD connected through one of of the USB sata external docks.
The linux machine died (and so did the dock), and I decided to use the HD in my main tower for extra storage, but also so that I could access the files.
It was fat32 format I knew, but I just stuck it in anyways, figured I would mess with it.
Well windows mounted it as the J
backup) drive and I could open it, and go a couple of folder levels deep. When I tried to open a folder that had files in it, it stopped responding for a long period and then said I had to format it before I could use it. I didn't want to lose my data so I tried to do a convert J: FS/NTFS - it had some error about it not being a correct volume or some such thing.
I downloaded a data recovery utility to see if I could do something with that, and while it was scanning, tried the 'convert' again. It said it couldn't gain exclusive access to the disk because it was in use, and offered to convert it when I next restarted.
I said yes, restarted. and now it is not showing up!
It shows in the bios and device manager. When I check the properties tab it says that it isn't initialized, but I see no option to do so (besides I need to recover my data).
So, I start screwing around with diskpart, and I try to create a partition on it because it says it has no partitions that I could assign a drive letter to.
Well when I try that process I get a CRC error. I wanted to run a chkdsk on it, but I can't unless it has a drive letter.
I downloaded a couple of tools to try and recover any partitions, but they need to scan, and the estimate was up to something like 23 hundred thousand minutes or something.
Before I let it run and scan and tie up my computer processes for so long, am I even barking up the right tree?
ANY advice is well appreciated.
I am close to just sending it to a data recovery service at this point.
Another thought, are there any good data recovery tools that will recover the data of of the disk and burn them onto a CD? I don't have enough room on my other HD's to recover the data to.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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