Disc in drive E is not formatted, do you want to format it now ?

[Craig Tucker]

A colleague has given me an old laptop which would not boot and asked if I could retrieve some data from the hard drive. I have removed the hard drive and connected it to my desktop PC. It shows up as drive E but gives the error in the thread title when I try to access it.

Any Ideas on ways to retrieve data from this drive. I am currently trying a trial version of Easyrecovery Pro, still scanning.

[MackemX]

two programs I'd recommend, one free 8) and one costly

PC Inspector File Recovery from http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

GetDataBack from http://www.runtime.org/ (free trial version available)

[Mr. Dweezel]

Here's a big cart full of info.

The link is to Google's cache so save the info to your
hard drive before the link is gone!

It also mentions the utility that Mack mentioned.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:8ZP3fKLJg6sJ:geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2005/12/har...s&ct=clnk&cd=1

[Craig Tucker]

Thanks guys, I had downloaded pc inspector smart recovery but it only seems to allow recovery of media files. Just noticed that I really should have downloaded the file recovery version. Will give it a try.

[Bjs]

Driverescue

Version 1.9 found here : http://www.pcwarfare.com/hdd.tools.htm

Nolonger developed , but still works ... no file restrictions