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Maria Coutinho Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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USB 2 is missing from my External Hard Drive 80GB

I used to be able to back up films on my external hard drive Freecom 80 GB and today by accident I formated the wrong disc and I stopped being able to back up anything. It says error 0x80042302

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Hiii,
USB hard drive recovery can be done in optimal way if you have not reformatted or used it further. Have you done so??

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By the time you have stopped the formatting process has already started now download some data recovery applications then check it

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SOURCE: freecom 500gb external hard drive not working

Try another computer, likely if it was plugged in though and was not protected with a surge protector its gone. Their are expensive services that might be able to retrieve it though, but that could cost hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Without being physically at the pc it's still going to very hard to diagnose it, try to find a family friend or someone who is well versed with computers to have a look. Or you might try a local repair shop.

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SOURCE: I need to intall a

Unfortunately, the company only supported: OS: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Mac OS X v10.3 or higher and Time Machine (OS X v 10.5 Leopard) compatible, for their USB hard drives.

You would need someone to write a driver for you or to connect to a computer with a supported OS.

I wish that I could be of more help.

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