Before my days of backing things up I lucked it though the years and everything was on a single storage drive in my PC.
I split with my wife and left with just the essential things I could carry so pulled the storage drive from my PC and had to leave everything else and the drive went in a draw.
When I got myself another PC I had the sense to copy the really critical things (photos and videos of my kids) to other places but didn't have the storage to duplicate the entire drive at the time so not wanting it to be powered it went back in a draw.
Fast forward a couple more years and I decided to re visit the drive and finally sort though it but when I connected the drive windows now states it as invalid in disk management.
I have tried clicking on reactivate disk in disk management which fails, I have tried a guide to set online status in disk part using cmd but no luck.
I have a very old version of disk genius with a dodgy standard licence but it is freezing up on me
The disk can be inspected by program that ignores that the partition is messed up but I need to find something that will recover the files and preserve the folder structure.
I have a program I used on another disk a while back but that dumped everything as a raw mess split across some 20 folders it created and inside those it created even more sub folders and inside those were raw dumps of file types where it had broken everything and had pulled apart install files and dumped all images from those with actual photos etc, it was a real mess that was so bad I found only what I really needed and discarded everything else for my own sanity!
Does anyone know of a free program (or cracked) that will dump the drive while persevering the folder structure please, the data is there but something has happened to make it unable to be read by windows.
I back everything up these days and everything is in at least two locations, hopefully I won't have to face this again!
Steve.
I split with my wife and left with just the essential things I could carry so pulled the storage drive from my PC and had to leave everything else and the drive went in a draw.
When I got myself another PC I had the sense to copy the really critical things (photos and videos of my kids) to other places but didn't have the storage to duplicate the entire drive at the time so not wanting it to be powered it went back in a draw.
Fast forward a couple more years and I decided to re visit the drive and finally sort though it but when I connected the drive windows now states it as invalid in disk management.
I have tried clicking on reactivate disk in disk management which fails, I have tried a guide to set online status in disk part using cmd but no luck.
I have a very old version of disk genius with a dodgy standard licence but it is freezing up on me
The disk can be inspected by program that ignores that the partition is messed up but I need to find something that will recover the files and preserve the folder structure.
I have a program I used on another disk a while back but that dumped everything as a raw mess split across some 20 folders it created and inside those it created even more sub folders and inside those were raw dumps of file types where it had broken everything and had pulled apart install files and dumped all images from those with actual photos etc, it was a real mess that was so bad I found only what I really needed and discarded everything else for my own sanity!
Does anyone know of a free program (or cracked) that will dump the drive while persevering the folder structure please, the data is there but something has happened to make it unable to be read by windows.
I back everything up these days and everything is in at least two locations, hopefully I won't have to face this again!
Steve.