(February 22, 2019 at 9:04 pm)fredd bear Wrote: About a year ago, I bought a LACIE 500Gb external hard drive, I wanted to have a drive which used an external power source.
Used it for larger files, mainly videos, a total of about 350GB
Had not used it for about 6 months.
Yesterday,I attached it to my Imac. When I opened it, the only thing showing was one folder; "BUDA"
As far as I'm aware it's unusual for a hard drive to suddenly delete everything. That leads me to believe there is a software issue. That the files are probably still there.
I also have a laptop, which runs Windows 10 and Linux Mint Cinnamon, as dual boot.. have also tried the Lacie drive on each OS. Same result.
Does anyone happen to know of any troubleshooting I can do?
I will not rehash the answers already given, but in a professional context, I have been that soldier. There exist professional companies that can retrieve data from dead HDDs. They are mostly successful, but they ain't cheap given that they do a clean room tear-down of the dodgy drive to the bare plattens if necessary.
I have twice had to engage such on behalf of clients. In both cases it was 100% successful and oddly also LACIE drives. In both cases it was horribly expensive, yet cheaper than a total loss. I am glad it wasn't on my dollar.