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jimi.heffernan
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First of all, hello all.
Second of all, i purchased a Seagate 250 GB HD yesterday and plugged it into my iBook g4. It worked spendidly, its FAT32 formatted.
I loaded all my media onto it and everything was working great. Then i brought it to my friend's house and plugged it into his MacBook. Everything worked great.
After that, i was out of the room but he, instead of first ejecting the disk, simply unplugged it from his computer. This i know to be bad.
It now won't mount on my iBook or any other computer (mac or pc) and only shows up on Disk Utility, but i can't access any of the data. It is very important that i recover this data, because it was literally all of my media- home videos, photos, movies, and tons upon tons of itunes music files. I ran some searches and came across the guy with the Western Digital, but it wasn't the same situation, so i made this post.
So my question is: What can i do? I know there are expensive programs that can recover the data, but is there a free one? i wish there was because it seems like such a trivial mistake to cost me $100. Also, is there some command prompt stuff i can do to recover it instead? I don't have a Linux machine, but i do have both a PC and this Mac.
Please help!
Thanks,
jimi
Second of all, i purchased a Seagate 250 GB HD yesterday and plugged it into my iBook g4. It worked spendidly, its FAT32 formatted.
I loaded all my media onto it and everything was working great. Then i brought it to my friend's house and plugged it into his MacBook. Everything worked great.
After that, i was out of the room but he, instead of first ejecting the disk, simply unplugged it from his computer. This i know to be bad.
It now won't mount on my iBook or any other computer (mac or pc) and only shows up on Disk Utility, but i can't access any of the data. It is very important that i recover this data, because it was literally all of my media- home videos, photos, movies, and tons upon tons of itunes music files. I ran some searches and came across the guy with the Western Digital, but it wasn't the same situation, so i made this post.
So my question is: What can i do? I know there are expensive programs that can recover the data, but is there a free one? i wish there was because it seems like such a trivial mistake to cost me $100. Also, is there some command prompt stuff i can do to recover it instead? I don't have a Linux machine, but i do have both a PC and this Mac.
Please help!
Thanks,
jimi