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Question

Trying to recover data from Seagate 2TB HDD. Help needed.

Jun 23, 2015 7:55PM PDT

Can't recover anything
Hi. I need someone's help...anyone's help. I'm trying to recover data(footage) from a hard drive. What we tried first was, connecting the hard drive to a PC using the IDE & SATA to USB cable, but an error popped up asking to format the drive. Then we bought EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard8.8 program, scanned the hard drive and files started popping up with each file size of 100MG We selected RECOVER and the files get saved in the folder of our choice BUT we are unable to open the files, each one is showing 0MB size

Your earliest reply is much appreciated.

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Answer
try to raw recovery
Jun 25, 2015 8:07PM PDT

According to your description, You may try to use the 'Raw Recovery' method.In some cases, Raw Recovery is the only method to recover needed file(s). Raw Recovery cannot recover files in original names, carefully identify your desired files one by one and save it manually.

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Jun 25, 2015 8:15PM PDT