LG - RH397D advanced hard drive from computer

[Triad123]

this is really going to sound stupid....

I have a LG H397D hdd recorder with 160 gb drive.

My lazer stopped working and i thought of a way to maybe just maybe get the info on the drive on my computer.
not thinking clearly and just responding i inserted my 250gb hdd into the lg recorder thinking it would ask me if it should want to format the drive (ntfs)

I wanted to make a recording and import it by simply inserting my drive into my pc and booting up looking for the new folders that might have been created by the lg drive.

now i cant read my drive nor recover with "getdata back" i have 3 partitions and total disc size show 460gb.

Please can any one help me to correct his as i need the information on that drive.

I know it was very stupid , but by having very high hope ..... i have to ask for help for a very stupid error.

[bithead9]

So let me understand you. Your 160GB drive is in the LG still - you put a 250GB drive in there to replace your DVD burner ? Then copied your files from the 160 to the 250 hdd ? put the 250gb drive in a PC and now it shows in windows as a 460 gb drive and is empty ???

[bithead9]

If the LG formatted the 250gb drive the data on there is GONE. If all it did was format you would be OK. But you copied data from your LG over the existing data sectors. How ever much you copied over is TOAST. There might be some data left on the 250gb drive that is from the old windows install. You are as they say, "between a rock and a hard place". Get a new 250gb drive and use that to reaload windows. You might be able to recover the data profssionally. that cost about $800 USD. Or you can try other data recovery utilities... This sucks.

[Bjs]

Try > http://ifndef.altervista.org/index_eng.html > From_hdd_lg_to_pc v2.04

As for the system drive ... before the mess hits > macrium reflect from http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp (system imaging)

As to salvaging data where the drives partition size is in error ... you may need to add this drive into another system as a slave and try partition find and mount from http://findandmount.com/ ... it may show a number of partitions found ... old and new ... you will have to know which 250gig partition is correct then try mounting it ... if it works you should be able to recover files ... if not you can move onto other programs to try recover files but I wouldnt try recovery if those programs indicate it is other than 250gig or file corruption is highly possible if not evident.

If no luck it be reformat and reinstall os time.

[Triad123]

Hi to all...thx forgetting back to me.
Well before i read the posts i have tried Get data back and some other recovering software even had the Hard drive at Seagate...They could not even recover any infomation.

What was interting the entire Hard drive showed 0 on each sector .....Meaning it can never be recovered and the program running on the Lg machine makes the boot sector invalid for any fat 32 / Ntfs to read..

A shame really seeing that i lost a lot of Golden oldies collection Like the Entire Mame Collection .... Would still try my best to find a way of getting that information off or just simply get it fixed.

bithead9

No i replaced the original LG Western Digital 160gb with my Xp operating systems 250gb drive thinking it would create some format of directories i could identify once booting windows....lol i should have asked before reacting..but that is life and so we learn.

If any one would have any way to assist in the matter i would appreciate it.