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Offline Simon

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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2009, 17:43 »
Sorry it's not good news for you, Kaz.  Don't you just love computers?  :(
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2009, 19:17 »
Quote from: Simon on March 24, 2009, 17:43
Sorry it's not good news for you, Kaz.  Don't you just love computers?  :(

Yes what with Microsoft Outlook and now this oh well, at least I know if I need help I have you guys  ;) keep smiling if I dont ill  :bawl:
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2009, 19:20 »
Quote from: Rik on March 24, 2009, 17:37
You can.

Rik, do I do this from device manager?
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2009, 21:38 »
Rik doesn't do the night shift, Kaz, but I'm sure he'll be about again in the morning, unless anyone can answer sooner.  :)
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2009, 01:10 »
Sometimes I do. :) Yes, Device Manager for each drive while it's plugged in, Kaz.
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2009, 09:44 »
We'll have to start nailing your lid down at night!  ;D
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2009, 09:47 »
I keep a crowbar in the coffin. :)
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2009, 09:50 »
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2009, 18:55 »
Just to let you all know
I GOT THEM ALL BACK I HAVE RETRIEVED ALL MY PICS 3000+
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They are going straight on to DVD  :solved:
couldn't get any other stuff back, but I have what I wanted My Pictures

Still cant solve the Bloody Outlook Problem :sigh:
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2009, 19:09 »
 :congrats2: Kaz.  That's wonderful news!
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2009, 21:41 »
:welldone:  How did you manage it?
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #26 on: March 30, 2009, 22:24 »
Hi Si
Quote from: Simon on March 30, 2009, 21:41
:welldone:  How did you manage it?

Hi Simon,
I am just backing up to Disk as I'm typing this I used Power Data Recovery it took 3 days!!!!! that incidentally didn't work although it did get all my files but they were all corrupt so I use Photo Recovery Genius they are all MT Solutions you can get a package deal so I have used Photo recovery genius and that has pulled all my photo's 3000+ and all my MP3 AVI WAV PNG MPEG GIF BITMAP files I havent chked the hard drive yet will let you know about that  :thumbs:
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #27 on: March 30, 2009, 22:45 »
Sounds like a lucky escape!  :)
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #28 on: March 31, 2009, 09:15 »
One word of caution, Kaz, DVDs are not the most reliable form of long term storage, particularly RW types.
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Re: External Hard Drive Wont Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Help!!!!!!
« Reply #29 on: March 31, 2009, 16:15 »
Hi
OK Iv ran Chkdisk on the hard drive took 17 hours said it had mended some clusters couldn't read it, it was t0 fast, anyway now I have looked at the drive there is nothing showing on the drive, but when I look at properties it says Used space 136,772.904 bytes FREE space 69,376,835,582 bytes Capacity 206,009,775,488 bytes but it's a 500GB hard Drive ? what do I do?
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