About my hard disk

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div850 Posts 13 Registration date Friday March 11, 2011 Status Member Last seen July 31, 2013 - Mar 11, 2011 at 08:03 AM
div850 Posts 13 Registration date Friday March 11, 2011 Status Member Last seen July 31, 2013 - Mar 15, 2011 at 10:13 PM
hello
i have seagate portable hard disk 500 gb
when i try to open in my windows vista it shows to format but i donot want to format the data contained in it i use it also by opening explorer but nothing happened also by seeing it properties it shows 0 bytes no free space
i have used it many times
but this happened recently
the story is this
i connected my hard disk to a fedora linux operating system and it says unable to unmount image and i got irritated but when i connected it to windows vista it started making my windows slower and didnot open then i got shocked
also i want to get back my data
please help me
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jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
Mar 11, 2011 at 09:34 AM
Hello,
Try this 1
Right-click on that drive --> Properties. Let me know the "File System". Is it RAW?
Good Luck
div850 Posts 13 Registration date Friday March 11, 2011 Status Member Last seen July 31, 2013
Mar 11, 2011 at 10:17 AM
yup it is saying that its raw but it took a hell of a time to open and also tell if raw is not there
please donot say that data has lost
jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
Mar 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Hello,

Try this 1

Click on the below link and download the application

http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/download/pdr6free.exe

After launching the application, check the check box "I am a home user, please

launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition" and then click on "Launch

Power Data Free Edition" button --> Click on "Damaged Partition Recovery" -->

Select a partition/volume you like to recover from the partition list --> Click on

"Full Scan". It will try to recover the files.

Good Luck
div850 Posts 13 Registration date Friday March 11, 2011 Status Member Last seen July 31, 2013
Mar 15, 2011 at 10:13 PM
thanks