Help using external Harddrive Enclosure

[stevedd]

Hi I have a faulty Laptop, and I have some important data I need to recover off the harddrive. I have purchased a external enclosure to plug into my PC. I have done this and the PC has rocognised the harddrive. However when I go to open it, it says "reformat this drive" when I click no it doesn't do anything and when I click yes it says "all data will be errased".

How can I enter the drive to retrieve my files before reformatting?

My harddrive is a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 and I am using a Iomak 2.5 inch sata Hard Drive Enclosure.

Thanks Steve

[itconcept]

Try with any Data Recovery software u can find free software in this site try with that.

[Evil Prince]

Assuming it's an NTFS drive, I used NTFS Recovery by Diskinternals. It's $99 but worth every penny. I used it to recover and over-chkdsk/r-ed hard disk and recovered all the data off it, including the OS and deleted files. In my case, it ran for about 22 hours (in an external USB case) on a Quad-core Xeon, 16Gb machine. It didn't seem to wanna do much after 12 hours on a 3.6, 4Gb EM64T machine. Not saying it wouldn't work but seems like the additional horsepower got the job done. Check it out:

http://www.diskinternals.com/ntfs-recovery/

Almost as invaluable as MHDD

[stevedd]

I have tried to looking for a program, (Pandora Recovery), and it keeps "not responding" whenever I go near it? Any program in particular I should be trying to use? Or is there another way to access the data on the harddrive?

[Russwinters]

Honestly, you may be sending this drive on it's death roll. These 5400.3 are notorious for basically committing suicide.

Is the firmware version 3.CAE or 7.01?



If so I would advise a professional, if the data is valuable. PCImage is close by you.




Try a trial version of R-Studio and see if it will see anything, but again it's risky with this drive as it may have suffered a head crash, etc.