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ANTALA

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Jan 23, 2024
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My external hard drive has stopped working. The disc is no longer readable . When I connect the disc to my computer, the system asks me to format it.

There are very important files on the disc.

Does anyone know how to help me?
 
It's a 320GB hdd drive. usb 2.0
I tried to connect it to another PC, but it didn't work either.
I pulled the drive out of the box and connected it directly to my PC via the SATA interface.
I see the following picture.
 

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I did manage to solve this problem.

First, I managed to make a copy of the damaged drive using Clonezilla.

I came across this video tutorial.


True, it cost me $97.95, but that's nothing compared to taking the disc to a technician. I risked losing my files forever. But I can't afford to pay a lot of money.
Let me tell you a little bit about how I did it.
I downloaded Hetman Partition Recovery , the program displayed my RAW drive, which used to be FAT, and started a full scan. It found most of my files and successfully recovered them. Yes, it couldn't recover all the files, but I was lucky: I recovered the most important ones .

And yes, make copies of important files (discs) for the future.

Also, thanks to everyone who tried to help me)
 
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