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Thank you, TokTok.
Best regards,
Val

Hi again, Gadget. I’d give it a whirl because nothing else works. I have a 4tb ext usb drive for storage.
Best regards,
Val

Thank you, Gadget. I tried creating an image file to our corporate server and crashed it. IT wasn’t happy. What is happening is that Windows is continuously polling the drive and reporting that it needs to be formatted. I think, as a result, the connection is momentarily lost and I get continuous disk read errors. Appreciate your input.
Best regards,
Val

sh10443,
Unfortunately no. It was just an external storage device. Appreciate the response. Latest post mentioned TESTDISK. I’m going to try that next. After that I may use the drive for target practice. 🙂

Understood. 🙂 Thanks, again.

Best regards,
Val

Thank you, Sir. I’m sure you’re right. The biggest loss is a 3 year old Outlook PST file. Oh well. I’ll do a better job with backups/images next time. 🙂
Best regards, Val

Thank you, Paul. I was beginning to suspect that.
Best regards, Val

First time poster. I have a USB external 1.5 TB Seagate drive that has failed. Windows is reporting that the drive must be formatted before use. Seagate file recovery utilities state drive must be initialized before use. One of the links in this thread sent me to OSForensics. Using the free version I am able to select physical drive 1, however it also states drive must be formatted. Commercial file recovery services are quoting anywhere from $550 to $3000 for recovery. Can anyone give me any advice/pointers? Thank you.
P.S. Ubuntu tells me it cannot mount the drive because it was shut down incorrectly in Windows. Run chkdsk /f. Unable to do so because Windows says to format drive first.