unable to read partition table error

[vtxr1300]

I have a laptop drive that I put in a usb enclosure and use as a backup
drive. The drive is not even a year old. Today I tried to hook it up
to my pc at work, but although windows gave me the usb device found and
installed message, the drive never showed up in my computer or in drive
management. I gave it to our systems admin guy who tried to hook it up
to his laptop running linux and after it detected it, when he tried to
view the drive contents it gave him an error message saying "Unable to
read partition table". Is there anything I can do to get the data off
of this drive? Thanks.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a laptop drive that I put in a usb enclosure and use as a backup
drive. The drive is not even a year old. Today I tried to hook it up
to my pc at work, but although windows gave me the usb device found and
installed message, the drive never showed up in my computer or in drive
management. I gave it to our systems admin guy who tried to hook it up
to his laptop running linux and after it detected it, when he tried to
view the drive contents it gave him an error message saying "Unable to
read partition table". Is there anything I can do to get the data off
of this drive? Thanks.

Can you read it when you connect it back to your laptop? If
not then I suspect that something happened to it when it got
connected to the other systems. You could try some partition
recovery tools such as Acronis Recovery Expert. I believe it
has a demo mode.

 

[NoStop]

Can you read it when you connect it back to your laptop? If
not then I suspect that something happened to it when it got
connected to the other systems.

And why would you suspect that? He already stated that there was a problem
with it and that's why he gave it to his system admin guy to look at. Just
because he tried to mount it with Linux doesn't mean that doing so caused
the problem. Are you just bashing Linux or blowing in the wind?

You could try some partition
recovery tools such as Acronis Recovery Expert. I believe it
has a demo mode.

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security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

And why would you suspect that? He already stated that there was a problem
with it and that's why he gave it to his system admin guy to look at. Just
because he tried to mount it with Linux doesn't mean that doing so caused
the problem. Are you just bashing Linux or blowing in the wind?



--
Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d

"Computer users around the globe recognize that the most serious threats to
security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

The OP's disk worked fine on his laptop. He then connected it
to two other systems: His office system (Windows based) and
a friend's system (Linux based). Either ***might*** have caused
a problem.

The tone of your reply suggests that you find it difficult to
discuss causes and effects objectively.