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Comment on Tutorial: How To Slave A SATA Hard Drive Via USB by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:17:02 +0000

Hi Jack,
I am not sure what the problem is; however, if you go to Disk Management you should see the full size if the drive. If you do not see the full size of the drive the drive itself may be failing. In the case of a failing hard drive software recover will not work.
thanks.

Comment on Tutorial: How To Slave A SATA Hard Drive Via USB by Jack

Jack — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:23:32 +0000

Hello,
My pogo plug suddenly stopped working and I could not able to access data thru it any more. I am trying to access the pogoplug Sata drive from USB sata external drive docking station. I see many drive letters ( example, K thru P) on my laptop but I do not see any files or folders in them. I checked the properties by right clicking on the drive but I see 0 gb used on them. Could you please assist me here if I am doing anything wrong. Thank you.

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: You Need to Format the Disk by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:44:29 +0000

Hi, your boot sector is not the MFT. If you are missing a boot sector at the beginning of the drive you can copy the backup boot sector from the end of the drive.
The MFT and the MFT mirror is not something you should tamper with unless you know you are missing the first portion of the MFT.
If you would like further help please detail the problems you are encountering and we will reply or try using Recover It All.
thanks.

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: You Need to Format the Disk by brian

brian — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:02:02 +0000

I don’t understand the last part of your tutorial. Is my noot sector the ( $MFT), and my backup (MFT Mirr)? And how do I copy

Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by Nazmul Hoque

Nazmul Hoque — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:42:29 +0000

Hi Dear,

Thanks for the Valuable tips. It seams this a very useful me if it works. I have query as below (ex-2003) :

To create new database using Mount Store command we need to start IS as mention option 4. Can we start IS without any problem as the new folder are blank. Can you pls know us what problem we may face.

Thanks

Comment on Failing Hard Drives and the Freezer Technique Revisited by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:21:08 +0000

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Comment on Failing Hard Drives and the Freezer Technique Revisited by Tatiana

Tatiana — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:07:48 +0000

Hi, my hard disk fell on the floor, and it dsnt work.
Can you recover my data ?
Please let me know the prices. I live in Portugal.

Thank you

Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:44:05 +0000

Look in Disk Management a see if the full capacity of the drive is being detected. If so, try running a demo of any piece of data recovery software. If the drive does not show in Disk Management and you need to recover the data then call.

Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by chris love

chris love — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:32:16 +0000

I just got a western digital 1.0TB external harddrive and wen I plug it to my computer it will bring it up as removable disk so and so. But wen I try to save to it or open it it says please insert disk into drive. I’ve tried on several computers please someone help me please. What do I do?

Comment on Damaged Hard Drive Recovery by curt

curt — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:18:26 +0000

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Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: Does Not Show Up In My Computer by Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:45:04 +0000

Thanks for the response. So that helped me to run Surface Scan (haven’t tried the other program yet), however the result of my scan was kind of weird: each block produced the same error of “The media is write protected”. Hope there is still hope left for my files, and thanks for your time by the way!

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: Does Not Show Up In My Computer by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:26:05 +0000

You may need to right click on the program icon and run them as an administrator.

Comment on SNAP RAID Recovery Part II Drive Set Definition by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:25:13 +0000

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Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: Does Not Show Up In My Computer by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:54:14 +0000

Great help thank you

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Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: Does Not Show Up In My Computer by Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:40:32 +0000

The data recovery tools you suggested aren’t doing it for me: surface scanner won’t populate a list of devices, and Recover it all I can’t get to detect anything either, which is weird since I can clearly see my device in the windows device manager and disk manager. whats going on?

Comment on Freeware Data Recovery by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:04:22 +0000

You can try using a demo of any full data recovery program to see if the data is recoverable.

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: You Need to Format the Disk by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:03:24 +0000

The sector containing the back up boot sector should be copied to sector 2048. Assuming 2048 in Win 7.

Comment on How to Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:02:00 +0000

Hi, try cloning your drive in DOS or using something like DD. Then work on the good clone hard drive.

Comment on Freeware Data Recovery by Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:36:49 +0000

My Inspirion 5130 with 500gb hd suddenly would not boot my windows 7. The error code suggested that I could recover the data if I bouught an enclosure and booted it via the USB port. I removed and mounted. My laptop recognizes the drive/hd but only sees the Recovery partican, about 15gb. Will this software allow me to recover any data on what used to be my c:/ drive?
Thanks,
Bruce

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: You Need to Format the Disk by Cecelia

Cecelia — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:45:02 +0000

Hello!

Thanks for the instructions, they worked perfectly until I stumbled at the end!

I found the NTFS back up boot sector, highlighted it and hit “define a block” , but then when I went to the 2048 boot sector I could not figure out how to paste it there. (This is more of a Winhex question haha)

Secondary question: should the backup boot sector be pasted at the front end of the 2048 section, or overwrite the section entirely?

Thanks very much for your help

Comment on How to Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive by Hatem

Hatem — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:05:03 +0000

First of all thank you for the excellent article.

Secondly I have a problem and hope some one could help me with.

I have a hard disk with bad sectors preventing me from accessing it, and I want a tool/software could be run bootable without OS that can read the HD regardless it’s bad sectors and/or copy all good sectors to a new HD and regenerate the data if applicable.

Hope any pro can help me

Thanks

Comment on Data Recovery Tutorial: How to Slave a Hard Drive by Unable to Rebuild a RAID 5 Array

Unable to Rebuild a RAID 5 Array — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:24:35 +0000

[...] Hook each hard disk drive to a computer and clone to a disk of equal or larger size. See “How to slave a hard drive“. [...]

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: Does Not Show Up In My Computer by David Mohyla

David Mohyla — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:23:42 +0000

Hi Pazzo, what did you format and create another partition on?

Comment on Troubleshooting Basic Hard Drive Problems: Does Not Show Up In My Computer by Pazzo

Pazzo — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:51:38 +0000

I just got a new pc running windows 8. I installed a software and when I restarted the pc as requested, it could not boot to the desktop. I tried connecting the drive to another working pc as secondary, the working pc would not boot to the desktop, when i removed the secondary drive, the pc will boot to the desktop. I have formatted, delete and re-created a single partition hoping it would work so i can use file recovery to recover my files but it wouldn’t format either and it still does the same thing when I try to boot it as secondary drive with the working pc. I have very important files inside that i have to recover. I desperately need help.