Problem with reading External HD after enclosure change

[MarcusTheDude]

Ok, I own an Acomdata 250g USB HybridDrive. It was working fine untill one day it stopped working. The light was on, but nobody was home. So I figured it was obviously the enclosure. I went and bought a new one yesterday. I put my HD in it and it worked...in a sence. I know it works because now the pc recognizes the drive when its plugged in. and i feel it working when i put my hand on it. BUT! it doesnt show on My Computer. I went to device manager and its there but it wont let me access it.

The thing is, That the HybridDrives have a factory set partition, one being the HD, the other being a virtual CD called "CD PART"...and i believe since i removed it from the original enclosure, now it cant recognize the partitions.

I really cant lose the contents of this HD since bassically my whole life is in there. Hope someone can help me.

 

[Freestone]

Assuming XP as your OS, what does Disk Management show regarding the drive and its partitions? Start, Run..., diskmgmt.msc

 

[MarcusTheDude]

Firts of all, in Volume, its just a blank space...no drive letter. It says its healthy (active) .

Type:Basic
File systemblank)- its supposed to be Fat32
Capacity:232.89GB
Free Space:232.89GB(holy crap i think thats bad)
Free%:100%
Fault Tolerance:No
Overhead:0%

 

[MarcusTheDude]

Oh, it also says "not initialized, but when i click "initialize" nothing happens

 

[Freestone]

Don't do anything further with this drive. Your next try will be in the data recovery area. Two applications giving good success have been reported on the forums here.

First, and by far the most reported, has been GetDataBack available at

http://www.runtime.org

You will need the FAT32 version.

The other is R-Studio from

http://www.r-studio.com/

These both feature try before you buy, and are not by any means the only recovery software available.

 

[MarcusTheDude]

Ok, Thank you for all your help

I will give this a try then and keep you posted.

Ps, i have no idea how to use the software but ill grow into it