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External hard drive has lost all its data
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External hard drive has lost all its data
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?
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=...sLyC6EHWlo
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
(February 22, 2019 at 9:33 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=...sLyC6EHWlo

Excellent. Thank you so much.

-I'm really out of touch with Windows; these days I mainly use the Imac and Linux on the laptop. (crap Celeron processor, Linux is faster. My fault, the PC was cheap, should have bought a better one)


ADDENDUM;

Have installed "EaseUS data Recovery Wizard".So far has recovered 2678 files, with 5 hours to go. 

What can I say? I'm so pleased I could just shit.  Worship

ADDENDUM: Just discovered "EaseUS ' ain't free.

I may buy it if it's cheap enough.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
Oh, I've been there, so I don't hesitate to provide what little information I can come up with. Good luck to you.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
(February 23, 2019 at 7:34 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Oh, I've been there, so I don't hesitate to provide what little information I can come up with. Good luck to you.

 Well,  they wanted $50.  I looked around and found a free app called "Disc Drill" .It's very slow, but works.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, saved me a lot of stuffing around.


It found a LOT of stuff which had been deleted. The drive is 500GB. The recovered material is over 1TB, but I can choose what to recover. I think I might need to do some sifting.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
All I can offer is brass knuckles and pepper spray. Or lighter fluid and matches.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
(February 23, 2019 at 4:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote: All I can offer is brass knuckles and pepper spray. Or lighter fluid and matches.
Or GPS and an amphibious vehicle. You won't need that again, will you?
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
(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?

Glad you're getting it sorted.  If it happens again, try whinging in a plaintive voice, 'Honey, how do I fix this?'  It works more often than it doesn't.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
(February 23, 2019 at 5:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(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?

Glad you're getting it sorted.  If it happens again, try whinging in a plaintive voice, 'Honey, how do I fix this?'  It works more often than it doesn't.

Boru

Who's Honey? My dog's name is Major, an unbelievably loud and distressingly  energetic Jack Russell terrier.

I have lived alone  for long time.

One benefit of living alone has been the eliminating the common learned helplessness of the Aussie male. Any problems, I go online. Cool

Whirlpool Forum is especially helpful. However, on this occasion, the most practical help came from here. 


 The domestic blindness still needs work. 
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
Try a hammer.
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