A friend of mine brought a 80GB WD HDD that was compressed. The partitions are gone now. When I run Easy Reovery Pro on it, it shows the hard disk size at 689 GB and it shows unknown file format. This seems a little strange to me. Anyway clues and guidance would be really appreciated.
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Strange compressed 688 GB HDD size and Data Recovery from 80 GB HDD
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- Jan 2, 2004
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I'd try using R-Studio to see if you can extract the data before doing much else.
If that's a negative, try wiping (writing zeros to) sector 0 (or sector 1 depending on how you look at things). Image the drive first so you have a fall-back position. Then reboot and rerun the extraction tools (Easy Recovery or R-Studio). I don't know how Easy Recovery handles the lack of a partition block, but R-Studio should do a nice job. If that still doesn't work I'd try wiping the boot sector(s) too, then again rerun the extraction tool.
Good Luck!
Rick
If that's a negative, try wiping (writing zeros to) sector 0 (or sector 1 depending on how you look at things). Image the drive first so you have a fall-back position. Then reboot and rerun the extraction tools (Easy Recovery or R-Studio). I don't know how Easy Recovery handles the lack of a partition block, but R-Studio should do a nice job. If that still doesn't work I'd try wiping the boot sector(s) too, then again rerun the extraction tool.
Good Luck!
Rick
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