- Nov 24, 2005
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Hey all,
As the resident guy in my research lab who knows ANYTHING about computers, I was tasked today with recovering research data from a drive that crashed.
I know, in before "lol backup."
Anyways, I extracted the drive from the tower and plugged it into an external USB enclosure, and the drive is unrecognized by Windows. Under Device Manager it recognizes the enclosure, and recognizes that there's probably a drive in there, but it can't do anything with it. Since the drive isn't installed, chkdsk won't work, and Disc Manager can't initialize the drive.
I can't tell at this point if it's a logical or hardware error, as I don't have the necessary equipment to take this thing apart safely. I'm afraid of using data recovery software, as the original file names are incredibly important (tells us what experiment we ran at what time).
Basically, any thoughts / help would be greatly appreciated. I searched the forum but didn't find anything immediately relevant.
Thanks!
As the resident guy in my research lab who knows ANYTHING about computers, I was tasked today with recovering research data from a drive that crashed.
I know, in before "lol backup."
Anyways, I extracted the drive from the tower and plugged it into an external USB enclosure, and the drive is unrecognized by Windows. Under Device Manager it recognizes the enclosure, and recognizes that there's probably a drive in there, but it can't do anything with it. Since the drive isn't installed, chkdsk won't work, and Disc Manager can't initialize the drive.
I can't tell at this point if it's a logical or hardware error, as I don't have the necessary equipment to take this thing apart safely. I'm afraid of using data recovery software, as the original file names are incredibly important (tells us what experiment we ran at what time).
Basically, any thoughts / help would be greatly appreciated. I searched the forum but didn't find anything immediately relevant.
Thanks!