Question: External Hard drive freezes computer - I have a 500 GB WD external hard disk that i have been using for 2 years now. It has around 17 GB of data in the form of family pictures, videos, music, movies and some important research documents collected over a period of time. Today when i connected it to my HP 431 laptop and tried to access it by clicking on 'My Computer' - it just hanged. Same result when i connected it to my desktop. This data is extremely important to me. How can i get it back ?
Answer: This seems to be the case of badly corrupt file system in your external hard drive. When we double click 'My Computer', the Operating System tries to pick all the required information about all the fixed / removable drives attached. Now because your external hard drive is badly corrupt, the OS never gets the correct information & thus keeps moving in an infinite loop & thus the PC or laptop hangs / freezes.
In some cases 'My Computer' maight succeed in showing the external hard drive and assign it a drive letter but when you try to access your data, it again hangs the computer.
Corruption of file system can be due to various reasons. Most common being:
1.Unplugging the external hard drive while a read / write operation was in progress.
2.Virus attack resulting in file system getting unstable.
Your data is of utmost importance. Once you get back your data, you can then reformat your external hard drive & reuse it.
Under such circumstances, to successfully recover your inaccessible data, you have two options:-
1. Use of a data recovery service agency.
2. Use of a data recovery software.
Out of these two options, one should first try out the data recovery software because it is a cheap option and is readily available. Search online & you will find many options. One such software is IGEO Undelete - an efficient file recovery software.
IGEO Undelete software is equipped with state of the art data recovery mechanism that specially takes care of the scenario discussed above. This software intelligently measures the level of corruption in file system. Other salient features are:
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