Different Recovery Problem

I had an Acer Aspire in the 5000 series. A drink got spilled on the keyboard and I cut the power to the unit immediately. The motherboard was fried anyway, but the hard drive was salvageable. I had it put in a USB case to access the data as an external hard drive when I needed it. I had trouble with permissions on some folders and documents at times, but I was generally able to access what I needed.

A couple of weeks ago I opened a folder on the external hard drive that I hadn't been to since I replaced my notebook. I forgot what happened at the time, but I was called out of the office. Since then, I'm unable to read the USB hard drive at all. I get an error message that says "E Drive Not Accessible. Folder or Directory is Corrupt & Can Not Be Accessed". Every recovery solution I've found is for an internal hard drive. Will I need to try to put it in my current Aspire 6920 to do a directory repair/recovery? Is there a way to recover it externally without sending it out to a data recovery service?

Any assistance you might offer will be greatly appreciated.

MikeB

 

have you tried the USB drive on another machine.?
can you remember the name of the file that you tried to open/opened ?

 

Get one of those , and use your desktop to handle it .

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You will never get a better bit of advice than this.
i have a caddie that takes most kinds of hard drive.
i store all my mp3's, xp and vista system back-ups and a few other mozilla back-up files on one.
also if you have any old pc/laptop hard drives doing nothing with files you would like to open again. then this will be money well spent, and it saves you a lot of money on cd/dvd's if you just want to store stuff

I sound like a sale's man

Phil