![]() And yes, I highly recommend removing it from the enclosure:ġ) The drive enclosure's connection may be bad, causing the initial errors.Ģ) The Western Digital software listed below, may not recognize the drive if it's in the enclosure.ģ) Heat is the enemy of hard drives. Yes, your drive is a IDE Western Digital drive. Here's more details about testing / recovering your drive and data. If it is in an enclosure, then the enclosure says "trekstor" on it, too, and it was sold to me as external hard-drive. Oh, and, finally, I don't think it's in an enclosure. Afterwards, I'll format that piece of shit, but not now. I'm definitely going to try the Low-Level Format tool from HDD Guru, but first I must save the data somewhere. Do you want to format it now?" Of course, I said 'No' to that. And, just now, I went to the second partition trying to navigate the folder structure of that one and, as I clicked on a folder, it said "The drive is not formatted. I tried to copy some of the files, and right away it told me it couldn't copy the files because of cyclic redundancy (!) Then, I went into 'Properties'>'Tools' and asked it to do 'Error Checking'>'Check Now', but after a whole night it finally spit out "Windows was unable to complete the disk check". I connected it to another computer running Windows XP, and the structure was recognized. Let me say what happened in the meantime, though. I don't know which one to try first, though - Linux or GetDataBack. But I am afraid to click 'OK' because I really must not lose the data on the HDD. In Windows 7, I get told that I must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it (when I go to 'My Computer'>'Manage'. WTF? I thought chkdsk was supposed to fix errors, not cause them. (So, instead of seeing like two new hard-drives in 'My Computer', I see nothing.) It's as if no additional HDDs have been connected at all, even though the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon appears. I ejected the disk afterwards, but when I try to connect it again, to any computer, the TrekStor hard-drive is recognized but the partitions are not. (It has two partitions, both NTFS.) It fixed a few files, and then it said that there was no more space to fix the next file needing fixing, and that it has stopped at 11%. I performed a 'chkdsk /r' on the first partition of the hard-drive. Please, I really need some advice with this hard-drive that is not recognized properly anymore.
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