Hard disk shows error:needs to be formatted

[jaigoyal.iitkgp]

Hi All,

I have a Seagate free agent 500gb hard disk. Its showing error: needs to be formatted. I have all my pictures and datas on it. I have tried chkdisk and partition tablé doctor but nothing worked.

I am very much frustrated that Seagate company says that they can replace it as its in under warranty but they will not guarantee about the data. Who D hell care for drive. I need my Data...



Jai

[raptor_pa]

No HD manufacturer will be responsible for your data, it's not just seagate. Try scanning with the demo version of r-studio and see if your files are found.

[jaigoyal.iitkgp]

I tried with Stellar phoenix photo recovery and it founds some of files on it but finally when i tried to recover it, it asked for key and Hell ..a lot of money

so i think files are there but these softwares are not able to show all of them so even if i buy key then i wont get all the data.

I think there is an mbr problem ..any suggestion for that

[raptor_pa]

I've gotten much better results with r-studio as opposed to Stellar, but it's like anything I guess, you get what you pay for, r-studio is only about $50 for the single files system version. You could try scanning with partition find and mount and see if it can identify the partition table, then mount the partition and copy out your data, it's freeware www.findandmount.com