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    WD Disk read error Lost data?

    Yea its true. I actually did a reformat about 2 weeks prior to this happening and had all my info on one partition and reformatted only the other. I normally back all my data up, but never lost any so I was careless. I used to have a 40GB and a 60GB that I used for that purpose, just to keep...
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    WD Disk read error Lost data?

    Exaclty what I think happened because the files are too small, or I think they are, about 50KB a file. They have the names for example of a picture file: Image(10), but theres nothing inside. I used getdataback for NTFS. Looks like im out of luck though, the drive still shows 20GB, though I...
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    WD Disk read error Lost data?

    I recovered some of my lost data. I have some pictures that were recovered but now when I try to open them I get: No preview available, are they damaged? Or is there another way to view them? Thanks
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    WD Disk read error Lost data?

    Hi, I have a 320GB WD hard drive. About 5 days ago, I was attempting to check the properties of my DVD drive in windows and selected the hard drives properties instead. Dont see why this would be a problem but as soon as it was selected, the computer restarted. As soon as it started back up I...
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    Disappearing Hard Drive

    http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1245075&page=1
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    Suddenly asked to reformat?

    I apologize to tek tips admins if I am crowding with my thread. But heres an update, I just restarted and I was allowed to open drive D, and am now copying all my files over and it seems to be working.
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    Suddenly asked to reformat?

    Hi, I am running a 320GB WD as a master and a 60GB WD as a slave, both 7200rpm on my XP pc. They have been working perfectly for months, but suddenly my second hard drive (the 60GB) was not detected. I Shut down, and re-adjusted the cables and after a while of swapping around got it to work. Now...
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    IDE Ultra ATA100 & SATA

    Hi guys..I have a question. I bought a 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive, but I was looking for a SATA hard drive since my mobo supports SATA. Will I see a big difference if I buy a 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive? Sry for my n00bness in the subject, Id appreciate...

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