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Recovering data off of a hard drive
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In April I bought a 1.5 TB Seagate External hard drive to use only as a backup, I was running OSX at the time. A month ago I bought a PC. I backed up my backup drive and reformatted it to the NTFS format. I then put files back on it. I accessed some of the files too so I know the copy was successful. About a week ago I reformatted my computer and now when I try and access my hard drive I get a prompt saying either there is no partition on the disc or the disc is empty. I took it to a computer store (reliable, done work for me in the past) and he couldnt access it either. I contacted Seagate and they want anywhere from $350-$3500 to recover my data. Some of the stuff on there was irreplaceable but none of it is worth that kind of cash. Anyone have any suggestions?
BTW my current operating system is 64 bit Vista
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I'm sorry to hear that, I wish I could tell you how to get your data back. but instead I'll send yous ome vibes. What did you lose?
I think when they recover data what they do is take apart the drive, and put the platters in a new, already formatted drive. I could be just talking out my ass though, somebody who knows more than me should chime in
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When you reformatted your computer was the drive plugged in?
What I bet happened is you reformatted your external drive along with the original. If so, you wont be able to access the data. But it is still there on the discs and it will be until it gets overwritten. Try google?
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Passwords, a few pictures, some documents that will be hard to recover (if its even possible), a LOT of CAD drawings, a few finished edits, probably more.
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If your drive is still physically good, your data is recoverable. All the data is still there. Did you run any file recovery utilities against the drive?
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id be willing to bet the data is still there, but your probably gonna have to take it to someone. id guess its not mounting properly or something like htat.
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do you still have the backup to that drive? the one that you used when you transferred everything?
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I know the data is still there but data recovery services are very expensive. And Ben, I no longer have the backup of the backup...
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What kind of utility would you recommend?
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