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[eroom]

I hope you can help yet another stupid person. I failed to back up pictures and now my hard drive has gone down.

My course of action so far has been to remove my drive put into another desk top and have it as a slave drive.My thinking was to transfer photos onto master drive.

Whenever I attempt to do something with slave drive it asks for it to be formatted.I am fearing the worst and think all data has been lost.

I have run Recuva and it comes up with the following - Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy check)

Can anyone help, it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Bob2]

I am also having a similar problem. I am trying to recover some jpeg files from a removeable hard drive but Recuva gets to about 36% and then stops and I get the message "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)"

How do I overcome this?

[gunner]

The cheapest way is to run the windows chkdisk. At times it is able to fix corrupt data and get the drive going long enough to restore and backup the data.