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LOL i love u guys! Well ima be gettin someones notebook thats just like mine and using his connector to get my data back on monday but ill have a stab at some mentioned above! Btw hope my slang b good 2!

Here what i got. Also i already initialized the disk and have been showing hidden files and just unchecked protected op sys files.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/Untitled.jpg

Thats not showing any used space

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Supposed to work with exFAT partitions and as far as I can tell its FREEEEEEE....

FYI, if you ever sell a HDD.. low level format followed by a couple of zero wipes ;) I lost files one time on a used drive I bought and ran recovery software.

Sorry but pictures of fat ugly naked people was not what I had on the drive *shudder

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Originally Posted by Neuromancer (Post 41258)

Thats the issue happened to me before i got a guy notebook and fixed it for him. I was gonna back up his stuff but when i took out of the case and put it in my pc its came up just like this the same issue im having with mine. Found him a working case someone sold me cause his hd shot but the case was fine put his hd in there and wala like brand new showed up with all his crap.

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Originally Posted by skarface (Post 41260)

Ah sweet. All the EDDs I have owned the first thing I do is nuke them and format NTFS. So I never have these issues :)

Any time you add a software layer between Hardware you are asking for trouble.

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Originally Posted by Neuromancer (Post 41258)

Which one do i do?????

:ohcrap:

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t90/jltromba/hd.jpg

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Originally Posted by Neuromancer (Post 41234)

One should not criticize others speaking ability, when one can not type a coherent sentence.

Initializing a drive will not cause it to lose data. Formatting a drive will. A windows format however is not really a low level format and is still recoverable with any data recovery software.

I like NTFS recover, it is not free, but it is cheap. The more expensive versions of recovery software will try and preserve filenames and folders. I can't recommend one off hand but google will point you to a software and there may even be free data recovery apps out now. (probably not though since it is a HUGE and over paid business).

The application that used to start when you plugged in via USB was triggered by the autoplay service in windows. Internal drives should not have this flaw, so the application would need to be manually triggered once the partition is viewable within windows.

Looks like everyone found "Spell Checker" after this post. :laughing: