Hi,
I have been given a WD 2TB 3.5" Sata USB HDD from my friend as he could no longer access any files after he knocked it off the table and the USB connector was damaged. He had not had any problems with the drive up to this point and said it contained 500GB of music only and no other files.
I have removed the HDD from the case and connected it to my PC directly via sata, it span up ok with no strange noises but didnt appear in This PC. So I went to disk management and it says it is not initialised which I thought was a little strange so I started on data recovery
I tried my old version of Get Data Back NTFS - instantly said no NTFS partition found
Then I tried Get Data Back FAT - 5 hours later said no FAT partition found
On to Disk Drill and a 24 hour scan later it finds documents, pictures, archives and videos (total 6GB) but no music files. It also found 1 partition - HFS with path \Partitions\HFS\file000000.dmg
A lot of the files seem to be related to the WD manual as far as I can see
I asked him if he had ever used this HDD with a Mac and he said no its only been used with Windows, maybe the dmg file is the mac WD software?
So any recommendations on what to do? Other software to try?
Thanks
I have been given a WD 2TB 3.5" Sata USB HDD from my friend as he could no longer access any files after he knocked it off the table and the USB connector was damaged. He had not had any problems with the drive up to this point and said it contained 500GB of music only and no other files.
I have removed the HDD from the case and connected it to my PC directly via sata, it span up ok with no strange noises but didnt appear in This PC. So I went to disk management and it says it is not initialised which I thought was a little strange so I started on data recovery
I tried my old version of Get Data Back NTFS - instantly said no NTFS partition found
Then I tried Get Data Back FAT - 5 hours later said no FAT partition found
On to Disk Drill and a 24 hour scan later it finds documents, pictures, archives and videos (total 6GB) but no music files. It also found 1 partition - HFS with path \Partitions\HFS\file000000.dmg
A lot of the files seem to be related to the WD manual as far as I can see
I asked him if he had ever used this HDD with a Mac and he said no its only been used with Windows, maybe the dmg file is the mac WD software?
So any recommendations on what to do? Other software to try?
Thanks