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ah well such is life.
appears to have self wiped either by virus or 'short circuit' (i did have to unplug it quickly the other day to lock it away to ge the train in time)

tried a few file recovery programmes from twocows but they all say there is nothing on there to recover - 0kb
(having previously recovered data from floppies and C: drives so i know it works)

any suggestions? :(

also apologies to Pista as i have no tunes with which to return the favour at the moment :|
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No worries mate.
You get your drive fixed first. I have plenty to be listening too in the meantime :wink:
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What file system did it have on it?
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200 ways to revive a HD drive...

Read carefully, apply with caution, mileage may vary. ;D

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hallucienate wrote:What file system did it have on it?
FAT
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:200 ways to revive a HD drive...

Read carefully, apply with caution, mileage may vary. ;D

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thanks, right back in five (and a bit)
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:200 ways to revive a HD drive...

Read carefully, apply with caution, mileage may vary. ;D

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thanks :notworthy:
after scanning about half of it i realised in my 'panic' i had not done something basic...
it works on another PC, and so it is just that my PC is having toruble reading the TOC which i can fix at my leisuree/once i have found the driver
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King of Byblos wrote:
hallucienate wrote:What file system did it have on it?
FAT
Ouch, I would not recommend that unless you absolutely have no choice.
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