Hello,
New to this board and computer novice so advice needed please. Briefly, I have looked through previous answers about dysfunctional external hard drives. Could someone clarify for me: if I reformat my corrupted hard drive, will recuva or restore help retrieve data after reformatting? As a beginner, should I try this myself or find a local professional? Am also not clear about warranty as drive only 4 months old.
Back story; My Hitachi Touro 2TB desk external hard drive packed up yesterday. When I switched on yesterday morning it made a whirring sound - like a cd does going round in a player. Since then it appears on my computer as a local drive G: whereas before it identified itself as Hitachi G: The data shows as RAW check says the drive is working. Originally I was getting an error message that said something like 'cyclical redundancy' but now that's gone too. The message now is that I need to reformat.
Hitachi's website support give instructions on removing the partition and reformatting. I understand from this forum that it means the data is lost, but Recuva and Restore have been mentioned. Is this a situation where programs such as these could get my data back? How likely is it? Is this manageable by a complete beginner or should I take it into a local computer shop?
Any advice (spelled out in simple terms please) would be much appreciated. Thanks
New to this board and computer novice so advice needed please. Briefly, I have looked through previous answers about dysfunctional external hard drives. Could someone clarify for me: if I reformat my corrupted hard drive, will recuva or restore help retrieve data after reformatting? As a beginner, should I try this myself or find a local professional? Am also not clear about warranty as drive only 4 months old.
Back story; My Hitachi Touro 2TB desk external hard drive packed up yesterday. When I switched on yesterday morning it made a whirring sound - like a cd does going round in a player. Since then it appears on my computer as a local drive G: whereas before it identified itself as Hitachi G: The data shows as RAW check says the drive is working. Originally I was getting an error message that said something like 'cyclical redundancy' but now that's gone too. The message now is that I need to reformat.
Hitachi's website support give instructions on removing the partition and reformatting. I understand from this forum that it means the data is lost, but Recuva and Restore have been mentioned. Is this a situation where programs such as these could get my data back? How likely is it? Is this manageable by a complete beginner or should I take it into a local computer shop?
Any advice (spelled out in simple terms please) would be much appreciated. Thanks