SERIOUS problem and I need help ASAP PLEASE

jared17

jared17

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Hey guys/gals, ok so I have HUGE problem, I borrowed a friends external harddrive because it had a video of our band playing a show on it, and I wanted to show my aunt and cousins. Well my computer couldn't access the drive and neither could either of my moms, and I have no viruses and neither did she. So I let my grandpa try it on his computer, he can access it, but it says its blank, now this origionally scared the shit out of me because I know for a fact my friends family puts all their family videos on it so now I'm worried shitless, and I talked to my friend today and he said that there is no way the drive can be blank because when he gave it to me it had stuff on it, so now I'm crapping myself over this. But I'm baffled at the same time, because 1) I had no access to the drive so I couldn't of blown anything away, and my grandpa checked the drive for viruses and it had none so thats no problem there. 2) My grandpa wouldn't of blown anything away, cause well hes not stupid. and 3) He spends ALL his time on his computer doing video editing and stuff like that, and he has no viruses on his computer that would wipe the drive clean. But I didn't give my grandpa the cd that my friend gave me with the HD, it has all the drivers on it and stuff. Would it make a difference if I gave him the cd? Like is the reason the files aren't showing up because the HD isn't properly installed?

I'm really in a panic mode right now because the files are gone, but I can't understand how they would be.

If anyone has any ideas PLEASE share them, I'm at a loss for ideas right now and I need some serious help.

Thank you all!

Jared
 
You can try using the cd. If it still doesn't work, I would bring it to a hard drive recovery place and they will probably get back all the data.
 
Why don't you just give your friend the HDD back, then he can verify whether it is actually blank? If it has been wiped, it's your friend's fault for not backing up a HDD and then giving it to someone else to plug into their machine.

Most external HDDs are just USB mass storage devices and don't require drivers under any semi-modern OS, but it could be an oddball drive and require drivers to actually work.
 
I was mistaken by what my grandpa had said, he to got an I/O error just like I did, so its not that the info isnt there, its just that we can't access it for some strange reason.
 
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