Recovering data on Vista using PC Inspector?

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Dr. Strange

Discussion Starter · Jul 3, 2010

Hi, not sure if this is the right place for my query so if not please delete my post but I'm hoping someone can help me with this;

I have Toshiba 1tb USB 2.0 removable HD that I accidentally formatted yesterday and lost almost 900gb of music and film. The films I'm not to concerned about but I really can't face burning my entire cd collection back on to Itunes again plus whatever else I might have downloaded.

I tried PC Inspector which seems to be recommended but have been unsuccessful.

When it scans for drives it cannot find any logical drives from which to recover the data. PC Inspector recognises the removable HD as a physical drive and displays it as 'fixed disk #2' but when I request it find any logical drives within it cannot find them (regardless of the start and end sector parameters I specify) PC Inspector also cannot find any logical drives on the resident HD as well.

If anyone can point me to a different application or advise me on how to use
PC inspector correctly then I would be very grateful.

I am using a Toshiba 1Tb Removable HD (USB 2.0) on Windows Vista 32bit.
All drives appear to be NTFS (if that makes any difference?)

Thanks.

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Dr. Strange

Discussion Starter · #2 · Jul 4, 2010

Bump...

Can anyone just point me in the direction of any other freeware/trial download software packages that might be able to help recover this lost data?

Thanks.

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jenae

· #3 · Jul 4, 2010

Hi, if the data is important to you then the more you poke around with toys like PC inspector the less likelihood you have of retrieving your data. Pay a professional to do this for you.. I have rarely seen success with these software data recovery methods, just my opinion it's up to you.

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rube-waddell

· #4 · Oct 27, 2010

Hi, I have the same problemL my external hard drive crashed on me with backing it up on my immediate to-do list - talk about bad luck. The computer doesn't even recognize it, which is why I'm using PC Inspector (unless there's another program that searches for logical drives and not just physical ones, but you probably know what I'm talking about more than I do). Unfortunately, I run Vista, and strangely, PC Inspector isn't compatible. Does anyone know of anyway I can do the same thing on Vista? (And before you suggest I ask for professional help, the data on it is mostly music which could conceivably be backed up, but it would be a chore - it's bad enough for me to want help, but not bad enough to pay for the help.) If anyone could me, that would be terrific. Thanks!

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MoreBeer

· #5 · Oct 27, 2010

If your computer does not recognize the drive, it's probably not a software issue. PC inspector and the like might help with damaged sectors (dubious) or formatted drives, but I don't think there's a way for software to find a logical drive if your OS won't even recognize the physical drive.

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