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February 2012 08:19 in Storage Share raredudex 15 February 2012 15:47:00 When i was formatting unable to read from device xcode one of my laptops, i forgot that my external hard drive is still plugged to the system so as i was trying to format, i mistakely deleted my external hard drive patition ever since then i have not being able to access all the files in my external drive. I letter came acroos a software called active@ partition recovery. i bought it and used superscan to scan my external hard drive yet it could not solve the problem instead its showing me this message; "unable to read sectors on a device". please help if you have a solution to it. More about : unable read sectors device rwgwiccan 15 February 2012 23:55:02 Well the problem here seems to be the fact that you deleted the partition which for all intents and purposes basically deletes all the information on the drive. I would suggest using a data recovery tool rather than a partition recovery tool. You could try Recuva or another data recovery tool as long as you have not rewritten any information to those drives. m 0 l Best solution inzone a c 121 G Storage 16 February 2012 00:20:20 http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk This is a free software program for data recovery so you could try this. Share Related resources Converted to RAW- Unable to read Boot Sector - Forum CHKDSK unable to locate bad sectors - Forum How to save data if Raw Read Error Failure and Pending Sectors happened - Forum Copy/Read from bad sectors in windows 8.1 - Forum Raw Read Error Rate Failure and Pending Sectors - Forum Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer raredudex 22 February 2012 12:47:56 1. First all, thanks y'all for all your contributions. but i waited for solution but it come on time and there was no way i could access my drive without formatting it, so i have formatted it now but all my files are gone. I remove the external drive from the jacket and fix in my laptop as internal hard disk. my computer can now see it as external hard disk
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1, 2 Next Previous topic | Next topic Author Message hddnewbie Post subject: Data recovery when error at http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=20427&start= sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 8:31 Joined: July 25th, 2008, 17:25Posts: 16 HiI have used active boot disk to look at a dead hard drive.It says "error reading sector 0 or boot sector is http://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_repair_hard_disk_drive.php invalid". I dont now how to proceed.* The drive behaves the same in two different computers* It is a non-OS drive, just for storage* When it is used, windows gets stuck at startup, hard drive when hard drive is removed windows loads perfectly fine. So I cant look in Disk management etc. * The dead hard drive is visible in BIOS* I have not done anything yet, such as fixmbr etc* Knoppix finds the drive, but it only contains system volume information, all files are gonePlease help.... Top dmarques Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September hard drive sector 1st, 2011, 10:51 Joined: November 6th, 2006, 6:58Posts: 1747 Hi,Use an hex editor to open up your drive and check if you have access to other sectors other than sector 0.If you have, sector 0 might be damaged and that's not a big issue.If you don't, then probably your drive has any other problem that is outside DIY. Top hddnewbie Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 11:24 Joined: July 25th, 2008, 17:25Posts: 16 HiCan you recommend a hex editor for me?It should be on a boot cd, since I cant get access to windows when this drive is attached.If I can access other sectors, what would next step be?Thanks Top einstein9 Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 11:28 Joined: May 13th, 2010, 11:17Posts: 2078 it might be LOCKED thats why cannot access it with Sector 0try: WinHex, but useless if locked _________________Every man dies, but not every man really lives...The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. By: Albert Einstein Top dmarques Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st,
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