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i have it hooked to a tower now. it spins and shows in my computer now. i can open the drive icon but shows nothing, however, the details show only 406gb available of the 498gb. i'll try some of those programs.
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i have it hooked to a tower now. it spins and shows in my computer now. i can open the drive icon but shows nothing, however, the details show only 406gb available of the 498gb. i'll try some of those programs.

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did you use Goback? &nbsp;then you need to uninstall it first
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did you use Goback?  then you need to uninstall it first

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Forced accept.<br />
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External hard drive will not load. Error message about I/O error. Tried on both a XP and vista system. I got a couple different data recovery programs and they could read it either. I REALLY REALLY need the info off this drive. can i get a boot disk or anything to get the info off? at one point the vista system siad i needed to format the drive. i dont want to do that becasue i'll lose my files...right?
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External hard drive will not load. Error message about I/O error. Tried on both a XP and vista system. I got a couple different data recovery programs and they could read it either. I REALLY REALLY need the info off this drive. can i get a boot disk or anything to get the info off? at one point the vista system siad i needed to format the drive. i dont want to do that becasue i'll lose my files...right?

external hard drive wont load

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