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Old 08-17-2008, 02:14 PM   #1
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How to get info off unallocated HDD

My niece had a disaster with her laptop when a cat piddled on it. now I'm trying to get some photos off the drive.So I've put the drive into a USB caddy and it shows up in Disk Management as Disk 3 and Unallocated. If I right-click on it I get New Partition, Properties and Help. What next? Is it possible to allocate a letter to this drive? Is it possible to get her photos off?
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PS. I don't know what happened to the cat..

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Old 08-18-2008, 10:08 AM   #2
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You will need to start experimenting with data recovery software.

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Old 08-18-2008, 09:58 PM   #3
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Thanks GLC,
I tried all three of those and no luck.
I'm beginning to think that the photos are no longer on the drive.

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