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Ok so my rule of determining the level of difficulty in data recovery is really 2 questions.
#1 -  is it making any noise
#2 -  is it detected in the bios if you connect it directly to the mobo

If the answer to #1 is yes - then if you want any hopes of recovering the data do not attempt to continue powering it on. It can be making noise because the heads are broken or bent and if that's the case you will scrape the platters and kill the drive beyond any hope of recovery. (data recovery isn't like the way they show it in the movies you cannot actually remove a platter and recover any data off it) And please do not attempt the Freezer Trick - it doesn't work on current drives anymore and actually introduces condensation in the drive that can kill the platters.
If its detected in the bios we can try a couple of things - and i can usually recover the data for about $250 - $799 - over 50% of the time its about $300.

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #520 on: October 22, 2014, 04:46:49 AM »

I can't delete the partition, it's greyed out.

God knows why.  :(
After backing everything up. Open command prompt as admin. Type - diskpart, hit enter. Type - list disk, hit enter. You will see a list of disks. Disk 0 is usually your primary hardrive. Anything later is usually secondary. Locate the USB drive you wanna wipe. Assuming it's disk 1, type - select disk 1, hit enter. Type - clean, hit enter. Exit command prompt. Go back to disk management (where you were originally trying to delete partition). You should be good to go.
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #521 on: October 22, 2014, 04:59:28 AM »
I can't delete the partition, it's greyed out.
You probably cant delete partition because it is active.  Unmount it.  IIRC you right click on it (in disk management), and do "change drive letter", and then remove associated letter.  Or in command prompt (run as administrator), mountvol drive_letter_thats_currently_associated_goes_here /D 
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #522 on: October 22, 2014, 12:13:39 PM »
After backing everything up. Open command prompt as admin. Type - diskpart, hit enter. Type - list disk, hit enter. You will see a list of disks. Disk 0 is usually your primary hardrive. Anything later is usually secondary. Locate the USB drive you wanna wipe. Assuming it's disk 1, type - select disk 1, hit enter. Type - clean, hit enter. Exit command prompt. Go back to disk management (where you were originally trying to delete partition). You should be good to go.
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #523 on: October 22, 2014, 12:32:07 PM »

ETA:

I just checked and it actually did a clean!
I now have 115GB of storage!

Thank you so much!


Is is possible that this happened because I use this drive for Windows File History?
Or maybe because I used it as a USB recovery drive?
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #524 on: October 22, 2014, 12:36:36 PM »
Is is possible that this happened because I use this drive for Windows File History?
Or maybe because I used it as a USB recovery drive?
Not sure what you mean by "this".  If you mean the access is denied error, I assume it was because the drive was being used (mounted).  Glad you got it sorted out :)
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #525 on: October 22, 2014, 12:51:59 PM »
Not sure what you mean by "this".  If you mean the access is denied error, I assume it was because the drive was being used (mounted).  Glad you got it sorted out :)
That the drive was converted to a FAT drive and it moved 80GB to unallocated space.
Last time I checked (two months ago), nothing was unallocated.
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #526 on: October 29, 2014, 01:32:45 PM »
Just set up crashplan to backup to a local machine and to the cloud. I created a new partition on the backup machine just for crashplan. After the backup I see the backup archive is about 1GB and the size of the files backed up is about 12GB.
Does that make sense? Crashplan indicates that all files were backed up?

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #527 on: November 05, 2014, 09:29:19 PM »
I repartitioned Windows 7 laptop, created a 2nd partition. Now the original windows will no load. I get to startup repair and it says something like osloader missing. All the files are there. For now I reinstalled windows on the clear partition. But I would love to get the original partition working..

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #528 on: November 06, 2014, 03:00:12 AM »
I repartitioned Windows 7 laptop, created a 2nd partition. Now the original windows will no load. I get to startup repair and it says something like osloader missing. All the files are there. For now I reinstalled windows on the clear partition. But I would love to get the original partition working..
Oy.  i'm assuming you didn't repartition within windows.  You would've just had to install bootloader (or aim previous one at partition - not sure what you did).  You basically need to add a 2nd entry to the loader.  look into easybcd. but be careful playing around there.  maybe dh can give you exact instructions.   iirc there was a way to run bootcfg /rebuild or something to that effect.
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #529 on: November 08, 2014, 09:26:32 PM »
I repartitioned Windows 7 laptop, created a 2nd partition. Now the original windows will no load. I get to startup repair and it says something like osloader missing. All the files are there. For now I reinstalled windows on the clear partition. But I would love to get the original partition working..
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #530 on: November 15, 2014, 04:27:25 PM »
I accidentally deleted a video from my Android phone. I tried using wondershare to scan for it, but couldn't find it (I definitely may not have been doing it right). Any tips? (I have a Mac computer and don't have a card reader- usually just connect the phone to the computer directly via USB.
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #531 on: November 15, 2014, 11:39:57 PM »
Does it mount as drive?

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #532 on: November 16, 2014, 12:00:39 AM »

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #533 on: November 16, 2014, 12:17:36 AM »
Try recuva

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #534 on: November 16, 2014, 12:30:02 AM »
Try recuva
Is it available for Mac?

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #535 on: November 16, 2014, 12:31:59 AM »
Oops no idea

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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #538 on: November 17, 2014, 01:06:23 PM »
What brands of portable hard drives do you recommend?
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Re: Data Recovery - Any Questions?
« Reply #539 on: November 17, 2014, 04:37:38 PM »
Right now? Hitachi is very good.