Missing folders of jpegs on WD external hard drive

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Several folders of jpegs have suddenly disappeared from my Western Digital
120GB external hard drive. Other folders (of the less important photos, of
course) are still accessible. Ran Norton Antivirus: clean. I ran the WD
quick check and extended check (took 36 hours on USB 1.1) successfully. Went
out and bought USB 2.0 card. Then WD said to run Disk Defrag, which said the
drive was corrupted. I ran Chk Disk successfully after that. Ran Disk
Defrag again, still said it was corrupted. WD said to contact Microsoft for
help.
I own PhotoRescue. Should I run that?
 
Pezz said:
Several folders of jpegs have suddenly disappeared from
my Western Digital 120GB external hard drive. Other
folders (of the less important photos, of course) are
still accessible. Ran Norton Antivirus: clean. I ran
the WD quick check and extended check (took 36 hours on
USB 1.1) successfully. Went out and bought USB 2.0 card.
Then WD said to run Disk Defrag, which said the drive was
corrupted. I ran Chk Disk successfully after that. Ran
Disk Defrag again, still said it was corrupted. WD said
to contact Microsoft for help.
I own PhotoRescue. Should I run that?
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Sounds like PhotoRescue or other similar
type software may be your best bet.

Is it possible that the files were overwritten
(replaced) by files of the same name? If this
is the case they cannot be recovered.

Just wondering...did you install/uninstall/update
anything just prior to the disappearance?

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John said:
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Sounds like PhotoRescue or other similar
type software may be your best bet.

Is it possible that the files were overwritten
(replaced) by files of the same name? If this
is the case they cannot be recovered.

Just wondering...did you install/uninstall/update
anything just prior to the disappearance?
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Did a little reading up on PhotoRescue and it
does not say specifically that it can recover files
from an external hard drive.

If it does not work...the program at the following
link may be worth a look:

Restorer 2000
http://www.bitmart.net/

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John Inzer
Picture It! MVP
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http://tinyurl.com/2po2o

Digital Image Support Center
http://tinyurl.com/3xxqg
 
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