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Sir. kindly tell me how to recover data from a seagate goflex 500GB .. It is not detected by windows xp and I have some data to recover it sir, ...
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    USB Hard drive not opening

    Sir.
    kindly tell me how to recover data from a seagate goflex 500GB ..
    It is not detected by windows xp and I have some data to recover it
    sir, I have tried in xp but not able to find any solution .

    since it is showing in Linux redhat but still I am not able to open it
    it showing Its format is NTFS and can't mount ..

    Sir is there any way to read my data from this drive in Linux

    kindly tell some suggestion
    Thank you
    Pradipta kumar rout

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    Welcome pradiptart!

    Let's give it a try

    Please post the output of
    Code:
    #mount
    #fdisk -l
    -l is a small L

    While your 500 GB is attached by USB to your machine.

    Then post the outputs here please.
    nujinini
    Linux User #489667

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    Respected sir
    thank you for your response

    following is the out put of commands which you want,
    kindly help me sir....

    I have connected my pendrive of 4GB
    and
    500 Gb of USB seagate go flex hard disk

    [root@localhost ~]# mount
    /dev/sda10 on / type ext3 (rw)
    proc on /proc type proc (rw)
    sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
    devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
    /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
    /dev/sda7 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
    tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
    none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
    sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
    /dev/sdb1 on /media/MAA 4GB type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,shortname=winnt,uid=0)
    [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

    Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
    60 heads, 12 sectors/track, 217085 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 720 * 512 = 368640 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 1 56889 20480034 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2 56890 217084 57670200 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/sda5 56890 113778 20480034 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda6 113779 159289 16383954 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda7 159290 167822 3071874 83 Linux
    /dev/sda8 167823 196266 10239834 83 Linux
    /dev/sda9 196267 204799 3071874 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda10 204800 213332 3071874 83 Linux

    Disk /dev/sdb: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
    128 heads, 22 sectors/track, 2781 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 2816 * 512 = 1441792 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdb1 * 1 2782 3915212 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

    Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes
    255 heads, 62 sectors/track, 61781 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 15810 * 512 = 8094720 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdc1 1 61782 488384000+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

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