Hello Everyone
I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard
drives.
I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8
to perform
a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the
Partition Magic hung
that is does not respond.
I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not
accessible The file
or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
Can you suggest some software to receover the drive.

Thank you.

"spock" <vk5zna (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote

Does the drive have files you want to save or do you
just want to use the drive?

later.....

In article <46322ed7$0$22073$afc38c87 (AT) news (DOT) optusnet.com.au>,
vk5zna (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au says...
I've used the following software and it's worked for me.

http://www.ptdd.com/

I do not recommend trying this over your USB connection. I've always
taken the drive out of it's external enclosure and attatched it to an
IDE cable directly to the motherboard. This eliminates the possibility
of your USB chips being flaky.

Bill
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"spock" <vk5zna (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote

I have used this tool many times, if you use it correctly it works like a
charm!

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

be sure to read the info

Mich...

Why not just reformat it through windows administrative tools?

I also need the data as well all 95gb of it.
"Carl" <me (AT) theworld (DOT) universe> wrote