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09-24-2012, 01:46 PM
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Punisher of fleshlights
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
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External hard drive with dead enclosure question
Alright, So my mybook live enclosure died the other day. I decided to take it out and just hook it up to my PC since it has all of my media on it.
I plugged it in and everything seems to be fine except that it wants me to format the drive to use it. This thing has a TB of media i dont want to lose. Anyone know how i can get the stuff off it without reformatting?
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09-24-2012, 02:18 PM
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Check your math.
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Not what you think
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What file system does it have right now? I pulled my external drive out of its enclosure when the AC adapter stopped working and it worked fine in my PC.
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09-24-2012, 02:43 PM
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Punisher of fleshlights
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
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Thats a good question.
Theres 2 drives that show up. 1 is like 500mb the other is the rest of the storage. Both show unknown file system.
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09-24-2012, 02:46 PM
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Check your math.
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Not what you think
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Was it one of those moderated drives that has software installed on the computer, or software that pops up when you plug it in? If so, dunno what to tell you besides to google how to get around it.
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ST:Tech- We write Haikus. Also, THE PLAGUE
2001 Viggen // Stage 1 Oil Injection // Stage 3 Exhaust Leak // Wet Clutch Mod
"Originally posted by randomdean: I'm not overweight"
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09-24-2012, 02:49 PM
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Punisher of fleshlights
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
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it has software but not really. It just shows up as mass storage on the network and the software is for other things.
Ive been googling for about 2 hours and havent come across anything overly helpful.
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09-24-2012, 02:58 PM
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has been here too long
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston, TX
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Google turned up the following:
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Originally Posted by http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/Data-recover-on-a-My-Book-Live-2TB-HELP/td-p/430120
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09-24-2012, 03:25 PM
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Check your math.
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Not what you think
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I was gonna say try a liveCD and see if it shows up in Linux if what Mustang suggested doesn't help any.
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ST:Tech- We write Haikus. Also, THE PLAGUE
2001 Viggen // Stage 1 Oil Injection // Stage 3 Exhaust Leak // Wet Clutch Mod
"Originally posted by randomdean: I'm not overweight"
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09-24-2012, 03:58 PM
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Punisher of fleshlights
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
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ubuntu live CD didnt help. Already tried
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09-24-2012, 10:49 PM
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Where's my boomstick?!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Keesler AFB, MS
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Do you have another mydrive that you could swap it out with?
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09-25-2012, 09:17 AM
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Punisher of fleshlights
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
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nope
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09-25-2012, 09:36 AM
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has been here too long
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston, TX
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Did the link I provided not prove to be useful?
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Cars, Technology, and Stogies ... All the fine things in life.
"Originally posted by Volucris: Computers are tools. Man is separated by how well he chooses his tool."
"Originally posted by Rebeltilldeath3: We went from Allan Sheppard, Gus Grissom, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin to Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Snooki."
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