<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Well,<div class="">If it’s something that disk drill can’t handle, you might have to. Also, you might want to check into replacement HDD hardware cards that can get you back into operation. If that turns out to be the case, once you have replacement hardware electronics then you should be able to back up data off that drive.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class="">From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware recovery Dept.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 11, 2024, at 6:06 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AppleSymbols; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">okay. I put it on windows and I'm running it now. wishme luck!<div class="">is there any point in taking it to someone and paying them to recover anything else?</div></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AppleSymbols; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AppleSymbols; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 7:51 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">my mistake.... need to reADWHAT IT SAYS!</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 7:46 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">thank yuou. looks interesting. So they say there is a linux version but when I go to download it only the apple version shows. What's the deal?</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 6:53 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="">You could always use disk drill. I use that for any supported filesystem I have here (including NTFS, EXFat, HPFS (many of thee BSD’s use this), OS X journaled FS and many more. It can recover, under limited circumstances even a partition table.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class="">From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Recovery and backups Dept.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 11, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">well, the drive may be ntfs but the files written were jpg written from a linux machine.... hmmmm. I guess it should be able to read from windows seeing as it us a JPG and not some exotic open source file:!) I guess it just got corrupted. The question still remains, is there a way to recover the files on the drive? I hope so, There were pictures on that drive. My entire south carolina trip!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The directions that were given were to run:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> chkdsk /f </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">on the drive. Have two problems with those directions though: 1. that requires admin privileges and I don't know how to do that. 2. when I stick the drive in it gives me the insert drive tone and then the disconnect drive tone and never assigns a drive letter to it. Then it repeats that until I pull the drive. And if I've kept the drive in there long enough it keeps doing that after I've pulled the drive. 3. </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:17 PM Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:44 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; 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