external hard drive files not visible

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/06/12 05:46, G. wrote:
> Not sure what happened but I can no longer see the files on my
> external hard drive.   What is the best method for trying to recover
> them?  Gparted shows the disc is empty.  I have not reformatted the
> drive.
>
> I found TextDisk from an ubuntu help page.  Is there a better option?
>
> thanks
>
>
> garyk

Can you be provide more information, please?

Which system are you running? Did this happen after you did an 
upgrade/update? What are you using to view the files on the external HD 
(I know you said that you used gparted but what did you use BEFORE)? Did 
you cleanly exit the external HD when you last looked at the files on 
it? What shows up when you - as root - do 'fdisk -l' on a command line 
with the external HD switched on? When you switch on the external HD do 
you hear the read/write head trying to read the disc?

BC

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