C: drive says it needs to be formatted!?!?!?

Strokes

Strokes

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So I turned on my desktop and as it got to the login screen it just showed the mouse and a black screen. It didn't go passed this so I rebooted in safe mode and it did the same thing. I then booted from my recovery disc and the C: drive said it needed to be formatted, as well as my external partition backup. Now all my music was backed up manually on one of my other HDDs which were not affected by this mysterious phenomenon, but all I really need is my pictures back. I tried Knoppix but it prompted me for a password which is dumb because I downloaded the .iso like 45 minutes ago and burnt it, so I gave up with trying that.

Are there any other bootable tools for fixing drive not formatted errors, or am I doomed to loose all my pictures? My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit


PS: I don't care if I have to re-install Windows, I just want my pictures back.


Thanks!
 
Piriform's Recuva is a handy tool for for recovering deleted files and files from storage that's messed up and should, according to Windows, be formatted. I've used it for USB sticks, I don't see why it wouldn't work for hard discs.

You do need a working computer with Windows that you can plug your hard drive into though.
 
hackapelite said:
Piriform's Recuva is a handy tool for for recovering deleted files and files from storage that's messed up and should, according to Windows, be formatted. I've used it for USB sticks, I don't see why it wouldn't work for hard discs.

You do need a working computer with Windows that you can plug your hard drive into though.
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Thanks, if I where to simply put it in my external USB enclosure and plug it into my laptop would that work? Also would it work on the drive as is (un-formatted) or do I have to format it before I run the software?
 
Thanks, if I where to simply put it in my external USB enclosure and plug it into my laptop would that work?
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It should.

Also would it work on the drive as is (un-formatted) or do I have to format it before I run the software?
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Yes, it will work for unformatted drives and I would strongly recommend you get as much stuff off of it as possible before formatting.
 
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