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Needing files off a harddrive

 
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hadatoe
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:28 pm    Post subject: Needing files off a harddrive Reply with quote
So my harddrive isnt dead...but something is a foot. I took this hard drive out of a pc i had where the motherboard fried out. Its a 250 Western Digital. I was told they used Maxblast 4 to get the pc to be able to see the drive. Everytime i hook it up windows XP wants to format it. Its got like 30 to 40 gbs of data on it that i want to take off. I have the free space on anouther hard drive to transfer it. But i can nopt see the files. Any ideas?

Some suggestions have been to boot with Ubutu but i dont know much about linux based OS.

any help will be appreciated
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cheadledatarecovery1
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you disk is detecting in the BIOS (and not making strange sounds etc) then it sounds to me that your MBR/MFT is corrupt. This could well be caused by bad sectors on your drive.

If you have any questions, just ask,
John

http://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk
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