Need to recover my HD that is asking for reformat

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Hey guys,

I connected my HD this monring after getting back from my vacation and taking it through security, and now it is not being read and asking to be reformatted and then says it can’t. When I go into my drive manager to try and reformat, it will allow me to do it, but will wipe the drive of everything on it. Is there a way to recover my files on this drive?

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Hello,

If the drive is spinning and shows up in Disk Management (Windows), or Disk Utilities (Mac OSX), but cannot be accessed, then the drive’s partition table is most likely damaged or corrupted. It may be possible to still extract the data utilizing data recovery software. Western Digital does not provide data recovery software. However, there are several kinds of Data Recovery software available. If you do a web search for Data Recovery it will yield plenty of data recovery software options.

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If you are going for professional recovery then it is best to nothing now. What OS are you using? You can try booting from a Linux Live CD sometimes that lets you access the data. There is data recovery software RecuvA is free   http://www.piriform.com/recuva TestDisk  http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk might fix the corruption. Then there are a lot of paid recovery programs that are try and buy.

Joe