- May 1, 2014
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My External Hard Drive Crashed. It was actually the hard drive in an old toshiba laptop I'd taken out and housed for USB connective availability. It was the back up to my external Hard Drive that started telling me the recycle bin is corrupt, and thus became more than just a back up for the past few months. To my dismay, I connected it a couple days ago and was told it needed to be formatted. My heart sank . . . the back up to my back up went down. So I looked up programs to recover my files. Between friends and online reviews I went with Recuva, got a clean download and began the process . I cleared out 300GB from this PC to allow for the transfer , since it couldn't be put directly back onto the hard drive apparently, but it didn't say much more about the location where the files were being recovered from. It said it would be several hours before it was finished, which didn't seem appealing to watch, and I had errands to run. When I got back my neighborhood was in the middle of a power outage due to extremely windy conditions and my PC was flashing at 20% battery. It died before I could make it to an Emergency Electrical Outlet Crisis Center(Starbucks) so I went home. When I turned it back on, it said it had done the transfer, but when I actually went through opening things, it has all the folders, but next to no contents or files in any of them. Which is frustrating because it showed me that I was going to be getting almost all my files back. SO I tried to run it again, but this time it wasn't giving me the same great response. I left it alone, since I don't know what good or bad anything is doing at this point. I don't want to risk unsure attempts of my own with my work and personal things on it and both being very important to me. If anyone has experience or is well versed in this type of problem, I would love to hear back with some help to solve my dilemma. Please & Thank You!
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