Harddisk problem. Pls help!

[Nickel]

Hi, my external harddisk suddenly cannot be accessed.

Error message said 'Parity error' and asked to be reformatted.

It has all my work files in there and I need those info.

Is there any way I can recover the file? This is an external harddisk that I store all work files and usually connected to laptop va USB port.

Kindly assist urgently. Those files are very important for my work.

Thanks in advance.

[iskay]

Did you dropped it? If yes, likely a hardware issue. If you hear scratching sound when powered up, better stop and get professional help. The more you fire up, the more damage may occur. If not hardware error, and the drive sound normal fired up, then can try software recovery products.

[Hon]

Some shop in Sim Lim offer data recovery. They charge about $500 to recover the data. If the data are really important to your work, bring down for professional help, don't keep trying and kill the disk totally.

[Nickel]

Thanks for advises. Noted?

At first it kept getting 'Cylic Redundancy Check" errors. I suspected the electronics (interface PCB between hard oak and USB port) inside the hard disk was damaged.

I swapped with another hard disk that I have and error seemed disappeared. Now laptop can sense hard disk but cannot access files.

I downloaded a recovery sofware and it is running to recover files in hard disk.

Running very slow (probably need 2days) to scan and 'discover' all the files.

Fingers crossed and hope after 'discovery' laptop can access the files again.

Thanks again for all advises. Any thing else I can do to recover all files, please share with me.