Here's my problem. The USB port on the enclosure of my external hard drive broke off so I replaced the enclosure. I had to quick format the drive in order to try and recover the data I had on it previously. I used PC inspector and once the data was recovered I am left with many files that say "clusterxxxxxx.xxx" none of which are the movies, mp3 or documents I had on the external drive. Are these "clusters" part of the files? How do I use these clusters to recover the files? Note: I have not overwritten anything on the drive. All I have done is quick-formatted it so that PC inspector could attempt to recover the data (at least that is what I thought I needed to do) Any help is appreciated
Because when I tried recovering data before quick-formatting it didn't work. So then I looked at the options in the program and one said to recover data after a quick-format so I decided to try that. I'm now trying with Disk Getor Data Recovery.
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