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       HDD Failure
    Matty
    post May 31 2010, 11:57 PM
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    Had a bit of a nightmare yesterday - bought myself a new WD 1TB drive, and have downloaded and built the relevant moviesheets! The HDD is quite full - maybe 10GB left!

    I was just running through the drive through the WDTv, checkeing all was ok - and stupidly disconnected the drive from the WDTv without ejecting or powering down!! Now I am left with an unrecognisable drive - get the Storage Can Not Aggregate on the WDTv, and on the PC it is just unreadable!
    There is a lot of movies on there, but have a recovery plan, which might take ages - using Stellar Phoenix Recovery software, and another 1TB drive I have!!

    Anyone know of any other suitable software, as I think I have damaged the Partition table of the new drive? Or any ideas as to what is wrong?

    Lesson learnt though - Use the EJECT button!!!!

    Thought please

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    post Jun 2 2010, 08:56 AM
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    If the drive's not readable even on a PC, then you're correct, the MFT (Master File Table) is most probably corrupted. All you can do now is try to recover as much data as possible using any good data recovery software. Before you do that though, try accessing the drive once using Linux and see (if you don't have it installed, simply boot from a LiveCD/LiveDVD). Do not try to repair the drive as this may ruin all chances of data recovery if done improperly.
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    post Jun 2 2010, 02:05 PM
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    search for MBR fix, it may help you out in this case..
    worth a shot
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    post Jun 2 2010, 02:15 PM
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    Thanks guys - have sourced some software that seems to want to recover the movies - no such luck with the rebuild software - all i seem to find seems to want to put the movies in another folder - I just need a bit of jiggling wit my HDDs to manage the near 1TB of data!!

    What a nightmare - and i feel such a twonk!!

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