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11-13-2004, 02:55 AM
So I let a friend of mine borrow my external USB 2.0 HD so he could format his computer and backup his files. After he formatted the computer (no, he didn't format the external HD - it was unplugged at the time) the external harddrive isn't recognized by either my computer or his. Device manager picks it up, but the drive isn't mapped in Windows Explorer. Essentially, I can't read or write onto the HD.
I'm not 100% sure, but based on some of my research, it sounds like the partition table has become fucked up. In the Device Properties in Device Manager it has the unallocated space all messed up.
I used EasyRecovery Pro on it, and it's able to recover the files using "Raw" File Recovery, however it doesn't get file names/folders and all I can do is pull the files onto another HD (which I don't have enough space to do).
The HD is 160GB Fantom Drives USB2. It was originally formatted as a FAT32 volume.
I need to figure out a way to restore the partition tables/fix the HD without losing the data.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm not 100% sure, but based on some of my research, it sounds like the partition table has become fucked up. In the Device Properties in Device Manager it has the unallocated space all messed up.
I used EasyRecovery Pro on it, and it's able to recover the files using "Raw" File Recovery, however it doesn't get file names/folders and all I can do is pull the files onto another HD (which I don't have enough space to do).
The HD is 160GB Fantom Drives USB2. It was originally formatted as a FAT32 volume.
I need to figure out a way to restore the partition tables/fix the HD without losing the data.
Any help would be appreciated.