External hard drive recovery, windows and mac related

If it shows up in DM, can you assign drive letters to the partitions?

If not, there are many good file recovery programs, but why not first attach it back to a Mac (the original offender) and see if you can backup the pictures (which you now know should be backed up to more than just an external drive) to other media?

If you aren't in to backing up stuff, in the future consider automatic cloud backup like Mozy or Carbonite, it may be worth the money.

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Partition Recovery Software for Windows--recover your Lost, Formatted & Deleted partitions.

You may prefer to try a free external hard drive recovery tool for Windows. It can easily and efficiently restore your inaccessible data back as long as you have not rewritten the original data. This freeware was found by my sister as her flash drive was logically corrupted. It unexpectedly restored all his data back. Just give it a shot:
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One more thing, you should remember to back up everything important on separate drives in case of similar problems.

Hai,

Yes ofcourse the mac software to recover is a hook my friend . I think i have figured out the actual problem. The actual problem's root cause is due to the file system conversion of the WD hdd. The ntfs file system was originally designed for microsoft operating system. whenever an external device with a file system which is not relevant to the operating system ultimately the Pc os will try to impose its dominance over the external drive. in that case there occurs a files system alteration so that the Pc os can access the data in and out from the external hard drive. When the same External hard disk is used in different PC the problem arises. In ur case the MAc OS can read a ntfs file system but writing data into a ntfs file system is tough task. Here when backing up the data it needs more space thats why it took 128 mb. since the backup process is unsuccessful the data is hidden in raw formats inside the drive.

Solution: Try to reformat the drive with file system common to mac and windows like fat 32 or choose the file system Hfs+ or hfsx that works well with Mac but not windows.

If u need those lost datas in the HDD drive try a recovery tool that can get back formatted datas. But choose the tool wisely because only the first time of data recovery will be efficient. For doubts please post a reply here.