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Hi,
I have a usb drive I use to store my music. It seems to have developed errors and 'lost' the file info. Is there anything I can use to get the files off?

There's about 750gb of stuff on there I can't access.

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Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:58 pm
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which OS do you use?

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Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:23 am
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sorry Windows 7 pro 64 bit

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Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:56 am
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is there anything else I can do before having to buy some software?

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Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:37 am
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you can try this to recover data ...

http://download.cnet.com/PC-Inspector-F ... 18663.html

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Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:14 pm
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Have you tried Recuva ?

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

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that is worth a look.

if it doesn't work i guess i dig out the cds, buy another drive and start feeding them in..

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