Problem with external hard drive

[cheeky]

Assalamu alaikum

ok I have an external hard drive hooked onto my laptop....its used to work fine and has quite alot stored in it...now when I go to open the drive..its opening but not showing anything..as in its empty...except its still telling me it has stuff on there and so much space left..so it cant have been deleted. How can I view the files on it? where did they all dissappear off to???

Help :rubeyes:

[Al-ghurabah]

try the hard drive on another pc see what happens.. does the pc recognises the drive but no files are shown.. and the drive size sujjests there are files on there as some space is taken... ???

try to connect to another pc/laptop first see what happens..

[cheeky]

try the hard drive on another pc see what happens.. does the pc recognises the drive but no files are shown.. and the drive size sujjests there are files on there as some space is taken... ???

try to connect to another pc/laptop first see what happens..

JazaakAllahu khairan Al-Ghurabah..

Basically its my brothers...not workin on hes PC..so hooked it up on laptop and same problem. Exactly what you said....PC recognises the drive, but no files are shown even though drive size suggests there are files on there...[urs sounded better!]

What do I do??

[SoulAsylum]

If it was hooked up to your laptop and working fine, then try doing a system restore (to an earlier date when ur laptop was recognising ur external hard drive) on it see if that solves the problem.

[cheeky]

If it was hooked up to your laptop and working fine, then try doing a system restore (to an earlier date when ur laptop was recognising ur external hard drive) on it see if that solves the problem.

Hmm..bro..used to work fine mnths ago...now its stopped working on pc and laptop.

I tried this: Go to Control Panel-->Administrative
tools-->Computer Management-->Disk Management, then change the your
Removable Disk (on the right bottom of the dialog window, just right click
it to change) to another drive letter so it wouldn't conflict with the
existing ones ...

But still aint working.

Got a few more stuff to try then will give up and let someone else atke over

:torture: @computers!

[Mr_Jailer]

1. Plug the HD into a different usb port.

2. Right Click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management - Check to see if the external HDD is displaying 'Healthy'.

3. Click My Computer > Right Click External HD > Properties > Tools > Error Checking.

Report back.

[cheeky]

1. Plug the HD into a different usb port.

2. Right Click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management - Check to see if the external HDD is displaying 'Healthy'.

3. Click My Computer > Right Click External HD > Properties > Tools > Error Checking.

Report back.

Done all....no errors. Whats happened to it :S ..everything that was on it is now invisable for some odd reason..it hasnt been deleted..its still there somewhere :S

I downloaded some next file restore software that my bro sent me link to...but its not opening on mine...some error...so cant try that.

[Shaolin's-Finest]

Done all....no errors. Whats happened to it :S ..everything that was on it is now invisable for some odd reason..it hasnt been deleted..its still there somewhere :S

I downloaded some next file restore software that my bro sent me link to...but its not opening on mine...some error...so cant try that.Plug in your drive, goto the drive folder, click Tools/Folder options and select the view tab. Click the 'Show hidden files and folders tab' and press ok.

[cheeky]

.. double post

[cheeky]

Plug in your drive, goto the drive folder, click Tools/Folder options and select the view tab. Click the 'Show hidden files and folders tab' and press ok.

Thats already the setting its set to..but still.I did it again for old times sake and its still not showing. any more ideas people??

[Mr_Jailer]

Theres a good piece of software called 'Recover My files' that u can use to attempt to recover the files...

Did you check to see if the external HD was 'Healthy'? The partition tables of the hard disk may have been corrupted or deleted. This means that although the data is there, you can't see it.

I accidently deleted a partition on my PC a few weeks ago. It didn't delete the data, but the partition tables renderin' the partition inoperable. The files were there, I was able to recover some usin' Recover My Files. This was on my primary hard disk.

I used Partition Table Doctor 3.5 to correct the tables and restore the partition and I was able to boot to it again.

[Mr_Jailer]

Theres a good piece of software called 'Recover My files' that u can use to attempt to recover the files...

Did you check to see if the external HD was 'Healthy'? The partition tables of the hard disk may have been corrupted or deleted. This means that although the data is there, you can't see it.

I accidently deleted a partition on my PC a few weeks ago. It didn't delete the data, but the partition tables renderin' the partition inoperable. The files were there, I was able to recover some usin' Recover My Files. This was on my primary hard disk.

I used Partition Table Doctor 3.5 to correct the tables and restore the partition and I was able to boot to it again.

[Mr_Jailer]

Theres a good piece of software called 'Recover My files' that u can use to attempt to recover the files...

Did you check to see if the external HD was 'Healthy'? The partition tables of the hard disk may have been corrupted or deleted. This means that although the data is there, you can't see it.

I accidently deleted a partition on my PC a few weeks ago. It didn't delete the data, but the partition tables renderin' the partition inoperable. The files were there, I was able to recover some usin' Recover My Files. This was on my primary hard disk.

I used Partition Table Doctor 3.5 to correct the tables and restore the partition and I was able to boot to it again.

[cheeky]

Lol..thanks for the message three times, JazaakumAllahu khairan. Its out of my hands now...but ill pass the message now to whoever it concerns.

[Mr_Jailer]

Whats the name and version of the program for the serial number you're after?

[Shaolin's-Finest]

Looks like the file system/P-Table is corrupt.

Download PC Inspector File Recovery (http://download.pcinspector.de/pci_filerecovery.exe) / install (ensure drive has been connected) then run. Goto Object/Drive, select the external hard disk (removable disk) and press the green tick button. If you find your files save them to your HDD (right click/Save to).

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[Mr_Jailer]

I did research with data recovery software and found recover my files to be the best...

But its still a laborious procss dependin' on the size of data... but I still think the solutions is simple... come tomorrow, cheeky will prolly be able to connect to it again... after a reboot...

Anyways, here's Recover My files.

http://www.uploading.com/?get=ZCB8CJ6O

[cheeky]

JazaakumAllahu khairan both of u.

Shaolin, I downloaded that software before but sumat up with my laptop..has errors with everything.

Mr jailer...he told me the version he wanted serial for but i fogot...but im downloading what u uploaded and will pass it 2mo inshallah. JazaakAllahu khairan!!

wa'alaikum assalam