Froze during Rebuild - Now drive cannot be found

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mattgill4
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Froze during Rebuild - Now drive cannot be found

#1 Post by mattgill4 »

Hello. I was using TestDisk to try and fix an external hard drive that wasn't working properly. Originally I could see the drive in Windows, but would get an error (think it was something like file system damaged) when trying to access. I was able to find the drive using TestDisk and attempted to rebuildbs, which I left overnight. When I came back the PC appears to have froze and rebooted. This time the drive is not showing in Windows or TestDisk. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks!

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Re: Froze during Rebuild - Now drive cannot be found

#2 Post by cgrenier »

It seems to be a serious hardware problem. You should contact a data recovery company.

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Re: Froze during Rebuild - Now drive cannot be found

#3 Post by mattgill4 »

Even though everything was working fine? Windows saw the drive as well as testdisk. I was able to recover a few things using picturerec. Not sure if something with the software caused the issue or my drive crapped out at that specific time..?

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