Paragon alignment tool

[mstoumba]

Seagate USB hard disk unusable after using Paragon alignment tool 2.0. The drive is blank as far as I can tell. Is there any way to get my data off this drive?

Thanks

[Elvandil]

Not if it is blank. How did you determine that?

If it is not blank, you could try recovering a partition table and lost files with:

Parted Magic (http://partedmagic.com) (The best boot CD. Includes data recovery to CD/DVD, network, or USB, Testdisk for partition recovery, audio tests, web browser, and much more)
Testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html) (for Windows)
Testdisk Boot Floppy Image (http://www.freepctech.net/files001/wpartnfix.exe)
Testdisk on Live CD (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd)

[mstoumba]

Well I plugged it in and it said it was empty. Its a 250 gig drive with 250 gig free. This really bugs me as I did not think I would have to use my old fried ghost to get a Image to use this tool. Learned a hard leason today. Anyway I have not used any tools against it. I was afraid to make it wose.

[1chaoticadult]

-{ Quote: "Well I plugged it in and it said it was empty. Its a 250 gig drive with 250 gig free. This really bugs me as I did not think I would have to use my old fried ghost to get a Image to use this tool. Learned a hard leason today. Anyway I have not used any tools against it. I was afraid to make it wose." }-

I had the same issue with this program. This program is horrible and buggy. I recommend using easeus recovery wizard to recover the data. This is what I used to recover some of the data I lost. >:(

[mstoumba]

I'll give it shot and let you know if I can see anything

[1chaoticadult]

-{ Quote: "I'll give it shot and let you know if I can see anything" }-

Ok then and good luck. I hope you get your data back.

[mstoumba]

Well Easues recovery mamager is running and it says it found 53 thousand files and 15 fat folder parts.
So I guess I need to buy the product?
Is there other ways to get stuff back?

[1chaoticadult]

-{ Quote: "Well Easues recovery mamager is running and it says it found 53 thousand files and 15 fat folder parts.
So I guess I need to buy the product?
Is there other ways to get stuff back?" }-

Sorry about that. I forgot the free edition only recovers up to 1gb. You can try Recuva, from Piriform. Its free and see if it can help recover the files.

[King of Rapture]

You seems to be in luck:

Giveaway of the Day - iCare Data Recovery v4.5.2

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-5-2/

Best regards,

KOR!

[1chaoticadult]

-{ Quote: "You seems to be in luck:

Giveaway of the Day - iCare Data Recovery v4.5.2

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/icare-data-recovery-4-5-2/

Best regards,

KOR!" }-

Nice. That surely will help.

[Robin A.]

Comment not related to the recovery.

According to what I read in Seagate websites some months ago, it is not necessary to align their AFD disks. Any alignment-related problems, it they exist, are taken care of by the disk firmware. The situation is different in Western Digital disks.