So I’ve been having trouble with this hard drive of mine for a while. Let me break down its (brief history). I bought it to upgrade the space in my original Xbox which I had hacked to run XBMC. Eventually the Xbox had run its course and it was moved into an external enclosure, though I had plans to move it into a computer eventually. When it was last in working order I had it partitioned with different areas. One was over 300 GB formatted as NTFS and stored music, TV shows, and movies. Lots of them. The second was about the same size and was used basically as my Mac’s backup disk. The third was a little under 50 GB and has a Windows 7 install on it.

At some point when it was in the external enclosure, I stopped being able to read from the  NTFS partition. I’ve tried on about 3 computers now and none can seem to figure it out. I’ve plugged it into my Mac and it has no problem recognizing the partition I use as backup as well as the Windows 7 install. Obviously none of the Windows computers can recognize that backup partition since the software is incapable of reading the filesystem, but every single one of them asks me to format my media drive and that is absolutely the last thing I want to do.

I did find some software for Windows that was able to recognize the media drive and see the first level of folders, but it didn’t see anything inside them. So I’m just hoping that someone out there has some sort of experience that might help me recover my media files (I’ve gone to this trouble because I had no backup of these files. I’m a college student, I can’t afford ANOTHER massive hard drive to back up all of my files). If I can’t figure anything out soon, I’m just going to format and try some recovery software. Thanks for ANY help you can give!