Q. I have Windows Vista, and when I run the normal checking utility, it doesn't give me much of a report on the results.
Is there a good free program that will tell me exactly what errors, bad sectors, etc my drive has?
Thanks!
Is there a good free program that will tell me exactly what errors, bad sectors, etc my drive has?
Thanks!
A. Disk drive manufacturers have diagostics for their repspective brands. I carry around a dozen. If you don't know what brand your drive is, or you don't want to fool with it, Kroll OnTrack's Data Advisor is a general purpose software tool. It costs money, but they have a free trial download:
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-downloads/
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-downloads/
My memory card for my camera chipped. How can i look at my pics?
Q. It is chipped a little at the top and when I put it back in my camera it says no memory card. There has to be a way to get those pictures back. Please HELP!
A. It would depend on the value of the images to you. The one place I recommend is Kroll OnTrack... http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/data-recovery-services/photo-recovery/ Give them a call for an estimate. Most of their work is priced by the size of the media and completed in a matter of days.
They are reasonably priced for what they can accomplish. When I was in IT, they were able to recover data from hard drives that were "irrecoverable" (including malicious damage). One turned out to have a broken head, they took it into a "clean room", disassembled the drive, and recovered the data platter by platter. No, I don't work for them...but have sent them $50,000+ of business over the years in hard drive recovery.
They are reasonably priced for what they can accomplish. When I was in IT, they were able to recover data from hard drives that were "irrecoverable" (including malicious damage). One turned out to have a broken head, they took it into a "clean room", disassembled the drive, and recovered the data platter by platter. No, I don't work for them...but have sent them $50,000+ of business over the years in hard drive recovery.
Why PC warns to format external hard drive?
Q. I've lot's of essential documents inside the external hard drive 500 GB. But whenever I plugged it to pc it warns me to format.
How to save those documents and make that hard drive usable again?
How to save those documents and make that hard drive usable again?
A. It maybe corrupt, or your system thinks it is corrupt. A drive that windows cannot read can be down to many things but windows is narrow minded sometimes and when it cannot read from an external drive it "assumes" it isn't formatted and that is why you are getting the message.
Try connecting the drive to a different USB port on your system as this can sometimes can be the simple answer. If you have the same problem than try connecting it to another PC in your house or try it on a friends PC. If you get the same message after doing this then the drive is obviously corrupt in some way or damaged to the extent that windows cannot detect any file system.
You can try recovery software [like the free Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva. But if windows won't recognise the drive as formatted then it might not work.
Even though this is an external drive it is still important to keep backups of the important data stored on it. If the data is that important and you cannot recover it by these means then you might want to consider a professional recovery firm like Ontrack Data: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/ but it will be very costly.
or Kroll: http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/
Try connecting the drive to a different USB port on your system as this can sometimes can be the simple answer. If you have the same problem than try connecting it to another PC in your house or try it on a friends PC. If you get the same message after doing this then the drive is obviously corrupt in some way or damaged to the extent that windows cannot detect any file system.
You can try recovery software [like the free Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva. But if windows won't recognise the drive as formatted then it might not work.
Even though this is an external drive it is still important to keep backups of the important data stored on it. If the data is that important and you cannot recover it by these means then you might want to consider a professional recovery firm like Ontrack Data: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/ but it will be very costly.
or Kroll: http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/
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