Samsung G2 Portable 640 GB - format disk error in WinXP/Win7
Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 12:47
Hi all, this is my first post and i'm new to data/hdd drive recovery field so if my post seems a little amateur please forgive me . I'm trying to recover a disk with the very valuable data on it (no way i can format the disk). The original problem is - Windows XP user was unable to reach external hdd drive(Samsung G2 Portable 640GB USB) - on initial hdd plugin to the PC, indicator lighted up for a 15 seconds and then gone black(turned off). Assumed that there might be a problem with the drivers, and tried another PC(Windows 7 in this case) things looked differently now. The drive did not turn off and indicator was on, though, i was unable see any attached devices in My Computer section. This excluded the hardware failure which was great Tried to check the status of the drive using windows chkdsk - with the following error -
. Finally after 15 minutes or so (Windows 7) detected a drive but trowed another error -
searched for a solution and found your fabulous and free tool (great work!)
Though i'm not sure what should i do in this situation not to loose the data, tried Analyse>Quick Search>Wirite option with no luck. Could someone guide me through the recovery process (I assume MBR recovery is necessary in this case)? Here is a screenshot of the testdisk 6.11 in Ubuntu and one more thing to mention - by the great surprise i can see all the data on failed hdd using Ubuntu OS with no problem, can access it and read from the drive with no problems at all, by many precautions understand that i'm prohibited to write anything to the drive. Could someone with expertise knowledge in using this software guide me through the recovery process? Thank you
Though i'm not sure what should i do in this situation not to loose the data, tried Analyse>Quick Search>Wirite option with no luck. Could someone guide me through the recovery process (I assume MBR recovery is necessary in this case)? Here is a screenshot of the testdisk 6.11 in Ubuntu and one more thing to mention - by the great surprise i can see all the data on failed hdd using Ubuntu OS with no problem, can access it and read from the drive with no problems at all, by many precautions understand that i'm prohibited to write anything to the drive. Could someone with expertise knowledge in using this software guide me through the recovery process? Thank you