So, this is way OT, but I'm hoping someone out there can give me some suggestions to help me figure this out. Here's my situation:
I have a 500GB USB external hard drive on my home PC that I use to store pretty much everything. All of our pictures, financial documents, mp3s, code repositories, everything. I have the hard drive partitioned into 2 equal parts, and they are set up as the "F" and "G" drives on the PC. Last week, my 9 month old grabbed the cable and pulled the hard drive off of the desk. When I plugged the hard drive back in, I could no longer access any of the data on the drives. Windows is saying that the drives need to be formatted. I've tried it on 3 separate machines, and I get the same thing on each one. When I plug in the hard drive, Windows sees both the "F" and "G" partitions, but wants to format them every time I try to open them. I looked in disk manager and it shows each partition with the correct size, but it says that each one is 100% free and contains no data. It does this on Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows 7. I tried booting Knoppix to see if I could access it that way, but I can't even get Knoppix to see the USB hard drive, or if it does I don't know where to look. I used VirtualBox to boot an Ubuntu instance, but got the same results as Knoppix, either it doesn't see the USB hard drive, or if it does I don't know where to look. (now would probably be a good time to mention that I don't know squat about Linux). So, that's my predicament. Does anyone out there have any suggestions on what to try? I feel like that if I can get Knoppinx/Ubuntu to see the drive that may be my best bet, but I don't have a clue as to how to do it. (plan on doing some serious googling tonight). I appreciate any suggestions anyone may have. Thanks, Eric Cobb http://www.cfgears.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347079 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
