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Thread ID: 118297	2011-05-28 06:38:00	2.5" HDD problem	Fishy (10540)	Press F1

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1205347	2011-05-28 06:38:00	My girlfriends laptop/windows installation shat the bed last week so I pulled her HDD out in the hope of saving everything on it. I went out and bought an external enclosure because it's 2.5" IDE so had no way of plugging it straight into my PC. The enclosure works perfectly I am assuming but I plugged it into my PC via USB and it is telling me that I must format the drive before I can use it. The only thing I can think of is that I asked her and she says maybe her HDD was FAT32, could that cause it to be unreadable though? It's an ancient 2.5" IDE HDD, only 40GB.	Fishy (10540)
1205348	2011-05-28 06:41:00	I just went into Disk Management as well and it's coming up as 37.26GB RAW - Healthy Partition. What the hell is RAW?	Fishy (10540)
1205349	2011-05-28 07:21:00	sounds like the file system itself is buggered. I've seen disks change to RAW when their fat table has become corrupted.	8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1205350	2011-05-28 11:21:00	A file recovery program should be able to get the files back. I use Getdataback (http://www.runtime.org) but it is paid software. You can download the software and scan the harddrive for files and only pay if it finds what you want. There are free programs around and there was a post of here not long ago with suggested programs.	berryb (99)
1205351	2011-05-29 06:58:00	I bought the program it is going through now doing thousands of "File @ Sector #" Says it's going to take 10 hours, does that mean it's working?	Fishy (10540)
1205352	2011-05-29 09:57:00	It can take some time to find all the files. It will also find ones that have been deleted in the past. You could have run the program before purchasing just in case it doesn't work but I have found it normally works very well as long as the disk is readable.	berryb (99)
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