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 Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: brian  
Date:   Mon 7 Nov 17:36

have an external USB drive Toshiba

which doesnt come up. any ideas on how best to recover ?
any shop in dunfermline that could recover it ?

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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: jake89  
Date:   Mon 7 Nov 18:03

Could try universal computers?

Before that, you could try putting a Linux distro on a USB stick and booting to that then seeing if it detects it. Windows 10 seems to be a bit iffy in detecting some drives.
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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: Milos Drizzle  
Date:   Mon 7 Nov 18:39

Could it simply be that a drive letter hasn’t been assigned? Check that by opening up Disk Utility (think that’s what it’s called) and see if the drive is listed, and if so assign a volume letter to it.

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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: brian  
Date:   Mon 7 Nov 19:54

cheers,
tried daskpart in CMD on windows

doesn`t see it.
windows does try every 20 seconds with a beep

tried recuva but nothing there either.

might connect to a linux box

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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: Jeffery  
Date:   Mon 7 Nov 20:22

Have you tried pulling the drive out of the enclosure? Usually it`s just a standard drive inside and you then slave it in a pc or put it in a different caddy.

*Edited to say, this should be done as a last resort once all software options are exhausted as the pins could be soldered inside or the case out together with super glue!

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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: brian  
Date:   Mon 7 Nov 22:50

had thought of that, case kis glued together
but it may be worth it as a last resort

cheers

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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: donj  
Date:   Wed 9 Nov 22:43

Used to be able to do lots of data recovery years ago but only tip I do remember is put your drive in a fridge or a short freezer visit.I can remember using that a few times if drive was hard to access.In an external case your drive inside will not be soldered just normal plugs inside.

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 Re: Hard Drive recovery
Topic Originator: brian  
Date:   Thu 17 Nov 14:12

thanks for tips.
got a guy in Pitcorthie, he was able to recover a lot of data from the drive.
used some special software to do data recovery.

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