My system recently crashed due to spyware, I think, but before I scratch the hard drive and start again, I connected it as a slave to my old computer running Win 2000. My problem is that it recognises the drive but says its not formatted, I have tried a file recovery program that found thousands of deleted file but I dont need those I want to view/recover the undeleated ones. Anyone got any suggestions on how to read the hard drive?
Problem reading slave hard drive
- Thread starter Delboy
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The deleted files should be the ones that were on the drive before the partition table was lost. If you search through them all you should find the files you want to save.
A partition program like GParted may be able to rebuild the partition with no dataloss as well.
A partition program like GParted may be able to rebuild the partition with no dataloss as well.
Not sure what a partition table is, the drive didnt have a partition originally.
The recovery program I used showed the original file path for most deleted files it found. Almost all were from the 'temperary internet' folder and had numerical file names. This made some sense as the program is only looking for 'deleted' files and picked up the many purges of the temp internet folder. Unfortunately it ignors everything else on the drive as its not been deleted meaning I cannot view any of it.
The recovery program I used showed the original file path for most deleted files it found. Almost all were from the 'temperary internet' folder and had numerical file names. This made some sense as the program is only looking for 'deleted' files and picked up the many purges of the temp internet folder. Unfortunately it ignors everything else on the drive as its not been deleted meaning I cannot view any of it.
The drive had to be partitioned, it may have only had one though. The recovery software should recognize that the partition is messed up and let you recover them all. Try running something like http://www.partition-recovery.com/ (this is just the first recovery option that came in my google search, I have no experience with the program itself)