External USB Hard Drive problems

[Frankenherder]

I have a 40 GB external USB HD. It worked fine until I accidentaly hit the USB cable during a write. Now the drive will not respond.

It is NTFS and I get an error saying it the file is corrupt or something to that extent.

I go to Disk manager and see the drive but there is no file system displayed. I suspect the NTFS MBR is corrupt. Is there a way I can recover the data since I can't see the disk?
Thanks
Matt

 

[garebo]

If you can take the hard drive out of the case you can slave it on an ide channel, then see what bios says about the drive.
At that point, if no go, then you could use a win98 boot disk and do a fdisk /mbr to try and fix the master boot record. If that fails then use fdisk to partition the drive. Then i would suggest you format the drive fat32, then, when you get it back in the box you can change the jumper to master and use win xp to format the drive NTFS.
That should do the job, works for me.


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[G0AOZ]

If what Garebo has suggested doesn't enable you to access the disk to get at your data, then you may need to use one of the recovery tools like GetDataBack or Easy Recovery.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[garebo]

Sorry, i missed the "recover the data" part. You can still try the fdisk /mbr though.



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[Frankenherder]

I ended up purchasing restorer2000. I used a demo and could see the data. Purchased the Pro for 49.99 and was able to recover 15 GB of data so I am happy about that.

Now just to try and expense it since it has 2 GB of e-mail that I recovered, let's see if the white shirts will approve it!

Thanks for your suggestions, the matter is now closed.

matt

PS. I reformated the drive and it appears to be OK now.