I read some topics here but still couldn't resolve my problem.
Here we go:

comp:
I have Toshiba Satellite 17" laptop Celeron 1.7 gHz 256+512 mb RAM 60 gb HD.
OS - Windows XP Pro SP2 (not original which comes with laptop). I use AVG7 antivirus.

problem:
I have 300gb Maxtor external HD (not new) where I KEEP most of my movie, music, anime.
One day I've got some virus from internet. And my external HD was CONNECTED to comp. AVG moved it to virusvolt. Later I cleared virusvolt folder by AVG. Then after for a while (I left extHD connected to comp for a night to download some things) I have no idea what happened but I couldn't find ANYTHING on extHD.
My Computer shows it as Lockal Drive G: total size:0, free space:0. Actually I gave to extHD totally different name.
When I tryied to open it. Comp shows an error.

actions:
I tried MANY softweres to get my data back but no result. Some of them do not see extHD. Some do see but cannot do anything. Shows an errors. Only 2 PROGS could tell me that HD is 300gb and free space 30gb on it. And then there's no or corrupted MFT - cannot fix.

question:
HELP!!! PLEASE!!! I want my data back.ANd if you right click on the drive in My Computer and choose "properties" what does it show?Sorry it took some time to get home and check it one more time.

So Device Manager say that there is such HD - location:0, device working properly, capacity: 286173mb.

It looks like ok... And the file format is?NTFSThe first thing you do is START a new thread, rather than trying to hijack this one. Thanks.bonchick,

Have you tried hooking up that external to another machine....preferably a desktop ? ?Yes, I tried as external. But same thing. Quote from: bonchick on April 27, 2007, 09:30:39 PM

NTFS

ANd if you right click on the drive in My Computer and choose "properties" what does it show?