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Thought I would give an update,

Still trying utilities and still no luck..

I am thankful I was able to recover the most important folder but I still hope to get the rest.

I am trying directory snoop right now and it has been running for hours...the light is blinking so it is doing something.

I cant now.....



Windows will still recognize the drive and start to 'see' the files and then the drive will just disappear from explorer.

What I am doing is on power up using utilities to see if I can recover things.


I think I will quick format to destroy the MFT and then unformat and see what ...

OK an odd thing happened, I plugged it into my new Win8 machine and explorer saw it and I was able to navigate to one single folder and copy it to another drive (700GB in total) :mrgreen: . So the drive works but the other folders are still a no go.

I had a person tell me I might need to flash the ...

OK, I have tried cloning, restoring files/directories and I am out of options I think.

I plugged the drive into windows 8 and it recognized it right away and the directory tree was there. I then explored down one directory and executed a small lock program and it worked. I even played a movie file ...

Well that didnt work, I tried to restore the drive to the new USB one and after 20 seconds it said it was done. Now I can not even see the new 3TB from my computer. Bummer. Getting a new one.......will not do that again.

Wait - I didn't clone it.....I will try that.

I am buying one today. I used a BootCD in Linux and it see's the directories etc...I will buy and clone and let you know if that works. I have been telling those that I know about testdisc...nice program!

I sure hope I got the right forum :D . This program cam highly recommended and at least it see's my USB drive. :shock:

I have a 2 GB USB 3.0 Drive that I have had for about 2 years. I use this as my storage device and use NTFS file system with a single partition. I have had no issues with this ...