G'day one and all.... the on-going saga of Frau Target's USB issues goes on. We have a seagate freeagent go USB hdd, the kind that powers itself from USB. Generally quite a handy piece of kit, but yesterday, copied a whole set of TV episodes to it, and all appeared normal.
Unplugged from lappie A without issue in the usual fashion (actually used the safely remove hardware tool for once, even though caching is on so dont need to) then plugged it into Lappie B. Detected the hard disk normally, but imagine my surprise when the folder I had just copied on to it wasnt there.
Naturally I thought I had been a muppet and copied to the wrong folder, so went back to lappie A with the drive, plugged it in and got a "H
is not accessible, the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" error. Have had this problem once in the past with a specific directory on the harddisk, ran the windows standard error-check/snag fixer scandisk and that fixed it no snags. Unfortunately, because it's now recognising the drive as a raw drive with no data on it at all as far as it can see, it wont run scandisk...
Anyone know of any decent drive recovery software? Preferably freeware! Or indeed another solution to the snag?