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In response to "Repost: need some tech help from the ST smart people. Having an external hard drive issue" by Holden Ford

Don't try writing anything to the drive. I don't know if it's recoverable at home, but if the bytes are salvageable ...

Posted by Bery Delecto (aka grayman) Nov 4 '19, 09:50

... then you don't want to accidentally overwrite them.

That's step one.

Step two ... either send it to a data recovery specialist, or try poking around with filesystem repair tools. Given the level of importance, the former seems like the correct approach (despite being a bit pricey).

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Did this just started to become inaccessible? Like you were able to save all the pics to it but then on reboot it cannot be accessed? -- nm - SyrDragon Nov 4, 10:23 1
- Pretty much, yeah. No idea what the hell happened. -- nm - Holden Ford Nov 4, 10:33
Thanks...I just reached out to a recovery specialist place with good reviews. - Holden Ford Nov 4, 10:12 6
- Ok, so looking at a minimum of prolly $400 to get this recovered. There are SO many programs out there advertising... - Holden Ford Nov 4, 10:23 4
  - We used one at work. It was easily 3x more than that and I would never try using the recovery programs if the data was really that important. -- nm - kilboooooo Nov 4, 10:45
  - These sound like they are a tad important. Is $300 really worth the risk? -- nm - spamlet Nov 4, 10:36 2
    - My thought is that I trust y'all around here and if anyone had a recommendation, I'd take it. nm - Holden Ford Nov 4, 10:44 1
      - The only thing I would suggest as an option would be to take the actual hard drive in the external enclosure out of the enclosure and put it into - kilboooooo Nov 4, 10:46
- good luck, we almost lost ours after we did the same thing (thankfully my BIL was able to recover them for us) -- nm - Beaker Nov 4, 10:17
if the drive's properties are fine, wouldnt the next step be trying another computer and see if it's "accessible" there? -- nm - mud Nov 4, 09:53 3
- I've tried 4 - 2 laptops, 2 desktops. It's definitely the drive. -- nm - Holden Ford Nov 4, 09:56 2
  - but ..but .. but ..: - mud Nov 4, 09:59 1
    - I know, right? -- nm - Holden Ford Nov 4, 10:00

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