Western Digital 1TB External Drive
Posted: 09 Mar 2015, 23:29
The usb hub on the chipset that supplied the external hard drive with power and data broke off.
I removed the drive from the plastic case and installed it directly (and correctly)in the computer.
I have checked and double checked the cable connections. It is all correct.
The drive would not show in explorer. After running chkdsk the drive appeared as Unallocated.
I ran Testdisk several times, quick and deep scans to find no partition on the drive.
I was able to recover some RAW data from the drive with PhotoRec but the data was a mess and unusable. It recovered a 3 gig .dad file that i have no idea how to access or if its of any value?
Ive used just about every partition recovery tool I could find to no avail. I need this Data back, there are pictures of my daughter that I cannot replace.
Any advice would be great!
I removed the drive from the plastic case and installed it directly (and correctly)in the computer.
I have checked and double checked the cable connections. It is all correct.
The drive would not show in explorer. After running chkdsk the drive appeared as Unallocated.
I ran Testdisk several times, quick and deep scans to find no partition on the drive.
I was able to recover some RAW data from the drive with PhotoRec but the data was a mess and unusable. It recovered a 3 gig .dad file that i have no idea how to access or if its of any value?
Ive used just about every partition recovery tool I could find to no avail. I need this Data back, there are pictures of my daughter that I cannot replace.
Any advice would be great!