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western digital mybook essential 250Gb issue, inaccessible file system

hey there,

i have a western digital mybook essential 250Gb usb2.0 external hdd.

i formatted it under a sony vaio laptop 4 days ago in NTFS file system.

last time the disk was operational it ran under my winxp vaio system.

then, i connected it to my g5 imac. ever since the drive has been acting weirdly. even though it is detected as a physical device by both the vaio and the imac, i cannot acces its file system at all!

is there something i can do to, at least, recover the data in the hdd??

thanks in advance,
dave.

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well, the process of recovery has been completed but in an odd way.

the restored folders, which are of the same size of the files existing in the drive, have, though, an odd nomenclature in a way that there is no correlation to the previous folder and file names. is this malfuncion permanent or can i restore the correct names for the files and the folders!?

thanks in advance!

dave.

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i should also note that the files have been sieved into directories according to their file type extension.

which means different folder for the .exe's, different for the .jpg's and so on!

please, guide my way, there's half my lifetimes works in these files! :(

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