Data Reovery

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tanderson

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My Maxtor One Touch 4 external hard drive is acting up. I'm getting an error message from the Maxtor software that there is no partition or that the partition is not recognized and is telling me to format the drive. I do not want to do this yet because I do not want to lose my data.

I've been looking at some data recovery programs to try to recover the data. When I first downloaded the recovery program, it saw the hard drive but then I had to pay to recover the data. So then I downloaded a free data recover program and now I can not get the hard drive to show up...on neither of the recovery programs.

It does not show up in My Computer, but does show up in Device Manager. Any ideas how I can get this to show up in my computer again or to show up on a "drive search" in one of the recovery programs? I really do not want to pay the expensive fees to have a "professional" recovery service do it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Inspiron 1318
    CPU
    Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHZ 1.87 GHz
    Memory
    2.00 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Mobil Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
Vista has a disk manager built in.
Go to your start menu then Administrative Tools & Computer Management
then click on Disk Management and you can see all of your hard drives.

On a recovery tool I dont think I'm going to be much help, sorry
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built Rigg "My Baby"
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N-E SLI
    Memory
    6GB DDR2 900 Kingston
    Graphics card(s)
    BFG Nvidia 9600 GT-OC + BFG Nvidia 9600 GT-OC
    Sound Card
    SoundBlaster XFI
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 19" WideScreen + Ascer 22" WideScreen + Acer 19" WideScreen + HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 + 1400x900 + 1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Seagate 500GB Sata Seagate 500GB Sata Seagate 500GB Sata Seagate 500GB Sata Seagate 320 Sata (Primary) Western Digital 500GB IDE Western Digital 500GB IDE Western Digital 300GB IDE Maxter 720 Sata (USB)
    PSU
    BFG 800 Watt SLI Power Supply
    Case
    Game Master
    Cooling
    Thermotake
    Mouse
    Logitech (Bluetooth)
    Keyboard
    Logitech (Bluetooth)
    Internet Speed
    Turbo Cable
    Other Info
    ATI 650HD TV Tuner X2
DemonSeed said:
Vista has a disk manager built in.
Go to your start menu then Administrative Tools & Computer Management
then click on Disk Management and you can see all of your hard drives.

On a recovery tool I dont think I'm going to be much help, sorry
Click to expand...


Yep, I have been to the Disk Management as well. It shows up in there but there is no partition shown and I do not want to format and lose my data.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Inspiron 1318
    CPU
    Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHZ 1.87 GHz
    Memory
    2.00 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Mobil Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
tanderson said:
DemonSeed said:
Vista has a disk manager built in.
Go to your start menu then Administrative Tools & Computer Management
then click on Disk Management and you can see all of your hard drives.

On a recovery tool I dont think I'm going to be much help, sorry
Click to expand...


Yep, I have been to the Disk Management as well. It shows up in there but there is no partition shown and I do not want to format and lose my data.
Click to expand...

Gbnt is one of the best software which i use
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Wipro
    Motherboard
    Intel dq35j0
    Memory
    8 Gb
    Graphics card(s)
    inter express chipset
    Sound Card
    Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Wipro
    Screen Resolution
    1024*768
    Hard Drives
    500 gb
    Mouse
    Dell
    Keyboard
    DELL
    Internet Speed
    100 mbps(office lan)
delphin said:
tanderson said:
DemonSeed said:
Vista has a disk manager built in.
Go to your start menu then Administrative Tools & Computer Management
then click on Disk Management and you can see all of your hard drives.

On a recovery tool I dont think I'm going to be much help, sorry
Click to expand...


Yep, I have been to the Disk Management as well. It shows up in there but there is no partition shown and I do not want to format and lose my data.
Click to expand...

Gbnt is one of the best software which i use
Click to expand...

I actually just downloaded that a few minutes ago. It is not showing up in that program when I search for available drives. But again, it does still show up in Device Manager and Disk Management. But it is not showing up in My Computer or any Data Recovery program I install.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Inspiron 1318
    CPU
    Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHZ 1.87 GHz
    Memory
    2.00 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Mobil Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
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