Recover a External USB Drive

[paul.raeburn]

I have just replace my Crive with a new hard drive... I have two other drives a D: Drive which is my External USB Drive and used for all my files... also a G: Drive which is a internal drive used for my temp and temporary Internet files...

I clone the C: Drive with my Old C: Drive... booted up... all was well until I tried to access my Drive and I got an error drive not recognised… so I used the disk management in XP and activated the Drive… now I get a message to format my Drive…

How do I fix this…

Regards - Paul

[GDH]

Do not format the drive.

Download Recover My Files from www.recovermyfiles.com. Install it on your C: drive. Run a "Fast Format Recover" on your D: drive to see if it finds the files.

If a Fast Format Recover does not work (it will take about 20 minutes to run), then try a Complete Format Recover.

Click on files found in the results screen to preview the file content.

Please let us know how it goes.

[paul.raeburn]

thank you very much for this information... I have now safely recovered all my files back... it took just over 12 hours... but it was worth it...