Recover data from a USB drive

Hi,

I have a problem trying to restore data from a 750 GB WD drive installed in
a USB/SATA enclosure.

The drive worked fine in my previous notebook (which died) running Vista
Business, but didn't appear in another XP machine. I don't know why.

However, when I connected it to my new notebook running Vista Home Plus,
under Disk Management it appeared as Invalid (not foreign or any other
details). I tried to convert it to a Basic disk ignoring the message that it
would delete data. Now the disk reports the correct size but appears not to
recognize the data that was on it. The only option given is to initialize
it. Surely that would completely wipe my data.

My question is: have I lost my data for good, or is there a conceivable way
to recover this disk, preferably through USB?


Thanks Thomas.

Thompson Tuckworth;664874 Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem trying to restore data from a 750 GB WD drive
> installed in
> a USB/SATA enclosure.
>
> The drive worked fine in my previous notebook (which died) running
> Vista
> Business, but didn't appear in another XP machine. I don't know why.
>
> However, when I connected it to my new notebook running Vista Home
> Plus,
> under Disk Management it appeared as Invalid (not foreign or any other
>
> details). I tried to convert it to a Basic disk ignoring the message
> that it
> would delete data. Now the disk reports the correct size but appears
> not to
> recognize the data that was on it. The only option given is to
> initialize
> it. Surely that would completely wipe my data.
>
> My question is: have I lost my data for good, or is there a conceivable
> way
> to recover this disk, preferably through USB?
>
>
> Thanks Thomas.

This type of problem is indicative of a hard drive crash.

Check the "System" event log for any type of disk error.

Are you able to actually install it in a machine via IDE or Sata
cable?

--t


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Thompson Tuckworth wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a problem trying to restore data from a 750 GB WD drive installed
> in a USB/SATA enclosure.

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