problem with HD(toshiba 1 tb)...urgent help please....

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Kunwar Akshyat

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I've got a HD toshiba 1tb and a very unique problem has shown up.My hard disk connects and is fully functional with my tv(a non smart tv)but when i connect it to my PC.it changes its name to local disk"E" and also shows 0 bites as free and used space.I tried to go to device manager and change the name,i did work but only the name changed ,my hd is still not working and i cant afford to format it cause it has important documents.......urgent help required,please
 
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Unfortunately my friend, even if this is not the case, having in mind the issue at hand your best bet for data recovery (besides a professional solution, such as a data recovery company) would still be partition and/or data recovery software.
If you have a spare drive, you might even try cloning this one and work with the data recovery tools on the clone, while keeping the original intact.

Please keep us posted on your progress.
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Hey there Kunwar.

This happens to HDDs sometimes when used with TVs and DVRs and other similar devices. I'd suggest that you try the drive with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens. You could also try accessing it via Ubuntu Live USB/DVD, to see if its partitions are properly recognized and if you can get to your files and back them up. Another option would be to go for data recovery software: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html & http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
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Kunwar Akshyat

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sir ,as you said I did it but it just wont work on any another Pc.and i'm not a pc geek so if you could explain what ubuntu is and what to do with it...any another easily accessible solution please.....
 
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Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux, an operating system similar to Windows. I think it's 100% your TV, like the other guy said. I would try it in a different PC, or try it with a PC monitor.
 
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Ubuntu is basically a freeware, bootable, portable version of Linux, which you can can boot to by using a USB flash drive or a DVD (without actually installing it). This way you'll see if this operating system is able to recognize the drive's partitions. Here's a tutorial on how to create a bootable USB drive: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows and here's where to download Ubuntu from: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Once you've created the bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive or DVD, connect it to your computer and restart it. You should enter your BIOS and select this USB flash drive as your first booting device from the boot priority options and save & exit. Your computer should boot to Ubuntu. Once this is done, navigate to your drive and check if you're able to access it.
 
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Yes, but the drive sometimes "gets married" to devices like DVRs, TVs or consoles (as mentioned in my first post) and thus gets recognized exclusively by that device until you reformat it with a computer for example. I'm not sure if this is the case, but it sounds like it. If you don't want to try out the Ubuntu option just yet, go with a couple of the suggestions for data recovery software from the links in my 1st post. You might be able to recover the important documents this way.
 
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You assume incorrectly. Nearly all Smart TV's, GPS Systems, etc. are really just small computers serving one function. If it was "just a monitor" as you say, then how does it know how to read, decode, and play computer video & picture files? Logically it must have some sort of processing capabilities and software that runs on them. Most such devices use a sort of stripped down version of Linux, which may have formatted the hard drive to it's EXT3/4 file system instead of the Windows NTFS file system.

Your best bet may be to use data recovery software such as R-Studio from R-TT to scan the drive and find your lost data.
 
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Unfortunately my friend, even if this is not the case, having in mind the issue at hand your best bet for data recovery (besides a professional solution, such as a data recovery company) would still be partition and/or data recovery software.
If you have a spare drive, you might even try cloning this one and work with the data recovery tools on the clone, while keeping the original intact.

Please keep us posted on your progress.
 
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Anything that can read a file off a HDD, has some sort of operating system that can understand the filesystem. I'm not familiar with that TV so I have no idea how it might have formatted the drive. But in any case, data recovery software will likely be able to find your data, and tell you what format it's using.
 
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