Hard drive crashed (unique problem)

Hello friends,

I am an experienced hardware and software user so my problem is advanced.

I had a Data Storage hard drive (non bootable) crash on me with all of my files on it (pictures, movies, music etc...)

Now the hard drive came back online but it tells me that I need to format the drive because it has not been formated. Off course I do not want to format.

Is there anything out there that can read my files even thought the disk appears to be not formated?

Thanks for the help,

Be0

 

First, try turning off your computer and external drive completely and power back on. If you are still experiencing the same problem, the boot sector of the drive was probably damaged somehow.

You could always take it in to a professional data recovery service, but obviously those can be ridiculou$ly expen$ive - in the thousands. Which may or may not be worth it depending on the data you lost.

I've never used these software, but they seem like they might be able to help you recover the data:
http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/file-recovery-software/

 

MBRWork should be able to recover your partitions and data, see http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=1358126&postcount=7