Hi,
My Buffalo External has crashed after only unplugging the cables to reposition. I tried reinstalling the Buffalo Disk software for the drive but its asking me for a fresh set of details as if it was never used so Im assuming the only way is to use a data recovery utility? I found Mini Tool Free Data Recovery and I have the EASUS Data Rec Wizard. Which is the best and what format should I use on this USB external drive...its a 320GB drive. If you could give a few lines on the exact steps to use on your chosen tool it would save a lot of time.

All good advice welcome,

cavblack

The safest approach is to clone your drive and work on the clone.

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Hi,
OK here is what I have. I have recovered the partition using Minitool Data Recovery. I used the Partition Recovery option. I got one folder NTFS as a result, this folder has three folders and they are:

1. MSWORD file 3.7GB ?
2..MOV folder with 2.4GB OF .MOV files
3. Shockwave Folder with 137GB of shockwave object files.

Now my question is how do I go about recovering the data contained in them, MSWORD says it has a max opening value of 512mb? As far as the other two folders are concerned I put the ball into your court on that issue?

All good advice welcome,

Berne

cavblack,

At first you say that your DR software has organised your recovered files into three folders, but later you appear to be saying that there is a single 3.7GB MS Word file. Could you clarify this?

If in fact there are separate .doc files, then you could view them with a hex editor. Hopefully you will see their original file names.

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