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chulew · Joined: 17 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

My 160GB Maxtor Onetouch III mini is now blank after my wife likely sent my notebook to Standby and the app I was running may not have completed. All I know is that when I went back in to check on my project, the drive would not show up in Windows Explorer and was very slow to respond to Windows Disk Management which reports:

-original drive letter I assigned is still associated
-drive is "online" (like my other attached drives and C drive)
-"Health (Active)" and capacity of 149.05 GB which I think is correct for a "160 GB" drive
-File System is left blank but Properties for drive show "RAW" (takes forever to show properties)
-Free Space = 149.05 GB (100%) with Fault Tolerance=NO and Overhead=0%

I've seen the somaphore timeout error on this drive. Zero Assumption Recovery app reported many many bad sector but had taken like 4 days to reach 15% and found no files so I aborted. Seagate's Drive Recovery free download software reported read errors suggesting that it is a physical problem with the drive but it does report like 4 files found before it halts.

Seagate wants $400 to check the drive remotely. All I want are the family photos since February that reside in one folder. This might be like 1 or 2 GB.

I've tried like 6 different free/trialware recovery programs with no luck and also tried connecting through 2 USB adapters and straight IDE.

I did notice one program reported ~1000 hours on the power up time for the drive. This is a warranty replacement drive for the original drive that had problems so this drive had some amount of usage before I got it.

I tried searching the forum but I get only get "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/optimumd/public_html/datarecoveryforums/search.php on line 575"

I'll keep looking and trying the search. If anyone can help with information given all of the above, I'd appreciate it. I will only attempt to reformat after I've exhausted all means of recovering my pictures short of breaking the bank.