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External Hard Drive Issue
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1479282"><p>Then the directory is gone. You may be able to find a windows tool to recreate it, but if the data is really critical, I'd use a professional service to get it back. If you overwrite the sectors where the directory was before it went away, you'll go from difficult to nearly impossible pretty quickly. I've lost some of my Windows skills over the years, but I seem to remember there were some tools that could rebuild directories. The data is still there, most likely, just marked as if it were not. So the trick is to find a disk management tool that will read what is there and rebuild the drive directory for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1479282"] Then the directory is gone. You may be able to find a windows tool to recreate it, but if the data is really critical, I'd use a professional service to get it back. If you overwrite the sectors where the directory was before it went away, you'll go from difficult to nearly impossible pretty quickly. I've lost some of my Windows skills over the years, but I seem to remember there were some tools that could rebuild directories. The data is still there, most likely, just marked as if it were not. So the trick is to find a disk management tool that will read what is there and rebuild the drive directory for you. [/QUOTE]
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