thanks mga bros. i am trying to recover the data right now with active file recovery for windows. hope it will work. its also time consuming. but bahala na. importante kaau mga files naa didto. should have backed up files before. kani laging magsalig ta alig kay lig-on ang seagate. tsk.tsk.
salamat werty, butitoy and siopao1984 sa inyo inputs.