Recover data from 'Unformatted' disk ?

[MadTommy]

I have a back up 80GB disk.. that had approx 75GB of data on it.

It was an external drive that i had not used for several months, it has all sorts of old work data etc.. stuff that i really didn't want to loose... but is also not present or vital stuff... real archive data. Maybe useful one day.. or it may not.

Windows is reporting it as unformatted, i assume the Master File Table or similar has got corrupted. :doh:

Anyone know of a way to recover this? Possible software that might do it?

[lt.col.alex]

go to ur local computer shop tommy. it happend to me just 3-4 weeks ago, went down to local shop and asked if they could recover it. 2days later and about 80 quid i got most of documents and files on a dvd disc:)

[MadTommy]

It that case, can you ask your shop what software they used to recover the data/file table please.

[lt.col.alex]

my disc was an internal one, and he had this neat docking station that u could buy for 150 quid or something like that, that magically fixed everything:) But my guess is that since they can recover internal, it shouldnt be a problem recovering external to. ill call them tomorrow and ask him if its a separate software program.

[Masaq]

In the meantime mate, leave the drive disconnected and unused. The more it's accessed there higher the liklihood of data being overwritten or removed by accident.

[lt.col.alex]

actually, i think this might be the one

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm?source=google1&gclid=CPOo8sa92ZYCFQuY1Qod8k6L2w

remember him talkin something about scavanger

[lt.col.alex]

yea, thats a good advise. it also says so on the link i posted there

[MadTommy]

internal/external.. its all the same. That software is not really what i need. I think i'll use a windows disk to try and recover the master boot record.

Thanks anyway.