I loaded data onto it, and it was reading and writting fine. I then needed to put a different drive into the enclosure, when I went back to the first drive, it wanted me to format it. When I go into the disk manager, it says that it is totally empty. I used demo hard drive recovery software and the data is there! What can I do to make the data accessible again? I also tried converting the drive to NTFS and it stated the the drive already is. I then tried to do a chkdsk and it came back The drive, path is not valid.
I have attached this drive to 2 different computer.

I was looking into data recovery places and i came across this site. Does anyone with experience know how much it would be to recover just a few gigabytes (at most 2) Or are there any electronic stores that you know that provide this service? (Circuit City, Best Buy, etc.)

I need to recover data from a damaged SimpleTech external hard disk by the way.

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i have an older maxtor 300 GB external drive ...

the partition was deleted from another computer but the files are still there .. i used a free trial sofware to see if they still existed..

my question is ...

since maxtor was taken over by seagate ... which software should i use to recover my files????

which is the easiest recovery software to use to get the job done????

will "seagate file recovery" work well for me??

thanx in advance!!

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My external hard drive wont turn on. I believe the problem is the power supply. Is there a way i can recover my documents?