external hard drive files not visible

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/06/12 18:43, G. wrote:

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> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Photorec can recover any kind of file.  See the documentation.  It is
> part of the Testtext program.
>
> Gparted allows you to look at partitions.  I do not see why you would
> find that confusing.

:-)

If I wanted to recover info from anything, I would be using System 
Rescue Disc - which also includes Gparted :-) .

>    Perhaps English is not your native language.

Nor yours, methinks :-) .

But then, very few English speaking (of whatever flavour) people attempt 
to be articulate - especially when they are asking for help :-) .

> Photorec is still recovering files.  It is recovering a lot of files I
> do not need.

That's most interesting - recovering files you don't need.

I thought that your problem was that you could not access the directory 
structure on that external HD.

How do you know that the files which are being recovered are ones which 
you really want?

> At the moment I do not think I need any assistance.

OK.

Sorry to have taken up your time.

I won't ever do it again - not in your case anyway.

> Thanks
>
> garyk
>


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