External Hard Drive

[German Rover]

MY External Hard Drive that I kept all my music on has gone. It keeps showing a general fault thingy, is it possibe to rescue the music on it, it took me years to get it all, and can anyone recommend someone who can do it relatively cheapy.

Cheers

GR

[Muttley]

Try Hot Spot Online

It's a lad called Dale Cooke, based at Armthorpe.

He did a good job for me when I had some problems last year.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Isn't this how Gary Glitter's downfall began???

You haven't got any S Club Juniors or St Winifred's School Choir stuff on there have you?

[MrFrost]

PM sent

[RobTheRover]

Google for RECUVA and download it.  A deep scan will reveal if any of it is recoverable, and you can recover them for nothing if so, albeit one at a time.  Depending on how valuable it all is to you, the paid for version is about a tenner, and lets you recover the lot in one go.

I used it on a pal's external hdd which had all his photos backed up onto it, must have been 10 years worth on there.  They were priceless to him.  Recuva got the lot back.

[Viking Don]

Mine 'went' a while ago and I thought it was the end of the world. So much porn, I mean music, lost in an instant, some real good ones too, rare stuff! Eventually I got so pissed off with it that I started breaking bits off it with a very sharp knife (probably best to use a chisel). Turned out that the external hard drive was just a hard drive in a sealed metal caddy and it was the electronic gadgetry in the caddy that was f**ked.

Inside was a nice new looking Samsung 500GB drive that I just went a bought a new caddy for and it worked fine again.

Now where's mi specs?

First rule of computing is always back up stuff you'd miss.