After many hard drive losses, I decided to keep all of my important data on my portable HDD. Now, at school someone decides to me a funny bastard and remove my HDD while in use. Now in dose not appear in My Computer or linux partition manger. (http://mcnlive.org/) Nor in acronis or Norton Partition magic 8.5. I NEED MY DATA BACK!!!! All of my source code is on there to for PAC Master!!!!!!!!!
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Its a portable HDD and cant hear it spinning anymore and cant view under miltipule partition managers.
If you can't hear it spinning it's dead then., check to see if it's still hooked up inside the case?
This has happened to me many times. All that generally happens is that the Partition table gets F'ed up and nothing can help that. As long as the hard drive spins and can be seen by the system but not read, then there is still hope.
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Aquire Ontrack Easy Data Recover and give it a scan of the HD using the advanced recover function. You should be able to get the data back. I have only used this on windows partitions so if it is linux then maybe there is other tools out there that does the same.
Normal file managers won't see your data. You have to look past the MFT and have wheatever software you use look for files with no partition info similar to a undelete function and that will get your data.
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Just fixed a HD that did the same... Basically the on board IDE chip died or something. The HD was still good. You can buy a new case and insert your drive and all should work again or just remove the drive and install to a PC.
Also you can try powering up the drive and then start windows. If your running XP it will scan the drive if any files was left open, if not, then its the IDE chip.
Defiantly try removing the drive and using another power and IDE source, maybe nothing wrong with the drive itself.
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