iomega usb 500g drive went kaput
Posted: 12 Jul 2012, 19:55
Hello TestDisk.
I found your software via lifehacker.com. Kudos to them for posting about this wonderful software. Let me describe what has happened and I need basics for what to do next.
I have the hard drive as described iomega 500g hard drive. It is formated with fat32 as I want to transfer files between XP machine and a mac book pro. I was backing up the photos and videos from my iphone when suddenly the drive disappeared from the finder. I panicked and unplugged and re-plugged and got the dreaded initialize new drive message. I then plugged into my PC and found the drive not loading. I went to the disk manager and it shows up there as unpartitioned drive space. YIKES!!
Basically something got corrupted in the backup process. I suspect data related although I'm not totally sure. I have run the first two basic scans and now am running a deep scan. I'm not sure what to do with results. I want to restore my data. Ideally on the same drive but I'm fine with transferring to another external for the time being.
Any suggestions for what to do after running a deep scan or where to find those steps.
thanks,
Jesse
I found your software via lifehacker.com. Kudos to them for posting about this wonderful software. Let me describe what has happened and I need basics for what to do next.
I have the hard drive as described iomega 500g hard drive. It is formated with fat32 as I want to transfer files between XP machine and a mac book pro. I was backing up the photos and videos from my iphone when suddenly the drive disappeared from the finder. I panicked and unplugged and re-plugged and got the dreaded initialize new drive message. I then plugged into my PC and found the drive not loading. I went to the disk manager and it shows up there as unpartitioned drive space. YIKES!!
Basically something got corrupted in the backup process. I suspect data related although I'm not totally sure. I have run the first two basic scans and now am running a deep scan. I'm not sure what to do with results. I want to restore my data. Ideally on the same drive but I'm fine with transferring to another external for the time being.
Any suggestions for what to do after running a deep scan or where to find those steps.
thanks,
Jesse