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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1154758" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>It sounds like the drive had an electronic failure. The drive mechanism is probably still in good condition but the drive electronics are defective. In my experience when this happens, recovery software is useless. When you initialized the drive the partition table was overwritten not the data. Which means it could be reformatted and used again. Of course you don't want to do that.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, about the only way you're going to be able to get your data back is by sending the drive to a recovery service. And you don't want to do that unless the data is mission critical and you're willing to spend lots of $$ for the service. Sorry I can't be of more help. Perhaps someone else may be able to chime in with a solution or idea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1154758, member: 46727"] It sounds like the drive had an electronic failure. The drive mechanism is probably still in good condition but the drive electronics are defective. In my experience when this happens, recovery software is useless. When you initialized the drive the partition table was overwritten not the data. Which means it could be reformatted and used again. Of course you don't want to do that. In my opinion, about the only way you're going to be able to get your data back is by sending the drive to a recovery service. And you don't want to do that unless the data is mission critical and you're willing to spend lots of $$ for the service. Sorry I can't be of more help. Perhaps someone else may be able to chime in with a solution or idea. [/QUOTE]
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