I have posted in the past that I've enjoyed troublefree use of my three Maxtor firewire enclosures along with two ADS enclosure boxes.
This week while editing a veg file, I heard through my speakers three da-dit, di-dats as my computer signaled the disconnect/reconnect (x3) of some one of my firewire components. This occured as one of my firewire drives was in the process of input/output. Net result: that drive was corrupted such that WinXPPro regarded it as a RAW formatted drive (no valid XP format) and would no longer allow access to its data.
I've encountered similar problems in the past and solved them by simply rebooting, letting WinXP "check" the probelm drive, make corrections, and continue using the drive - no data lost.
This time, I could not get WinXP to check the drive. Moving the drive to another enclosure also did not help.
Frantic to save my data, I searched on the term "data recover" online and found what I think is a nifty little program called "GetDataBack". I downloaded and paid for the unlock key and was able to scan the affected disk, identify valid files and copy them to another drive (whew!!). I then formatted the bad drive and it works as good as new now.
I called Maxtor support - spoke to a knowledgeable chap who congratulated me on my choice of "GetDataBack" as a great little piece of software, but, who also explained that, from my description, he thought the "tailpiece" on my Maxtor external drive enclosure was going bad.
It seems to be working fine now, so, I'm curious if anyone else has encountered a similar problem and might like to comment.
I've already read those threads where Maxtor's enclosure components were described as junk, I've had this stuff for a couple of years now, so I would prefer helpful comments rather than brand put-downs. My enclosure have served me faithfully and assisted in my efforts to earn a bit of cash, so, IMHO, they don't owe me anything. Furthermore, this is the first problem I've ever experienced with them, although I've had ADS kits fail me in the past (ADS made good on everything, though).
Comments welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Caruso
This week while editing a veg file, I heard through my speakers three da-dit, di-dats as my computer signaled the disconnect/reconnect (x3) of some one of my firewire components. This occured as one of my firewire drives was in the process of input/output. Net result: that drive was corrupted such that WinXPPro regarded it as a RAW formatted drive (no valid XP format) and would no longer allow access to its data.
I've encountered similar problems in the past and solved them by simply rebooting, letting WinXP "check" the probelm drive, make corrections, and continue using the drive - no data lost.
This time, I could not get WinXP to check the drive. Moving the drive to another enclosure also did not help.
Frantic to save my data, I searched on the term "data recover" online and found what I think is a nifty little program called "GetDataBack". I downloaded and paid for the unlock key and was able to scan the affected disk, identify valid files and copy them to another drive (whew!!). I then formatted the bad drive and it works as good as new now.
I called Maxtor support - spoke to a knowledgeable chap who congratulated me on my choice of "GetDataBack" as a great little piece of software, but, who also explained that, from my description, he thought the "tailpiece" on my Maxtor external drive enclosure was going bad.
It seems to be working fine now, so, I'm curious if anyone else has encountered a similar problem and might like to comment.
I've already read those threads where Maxtor's enclosure components were described as junk, I've had this stuff for a couple of years now, so I would prefer helpful comments rather than brand put-downs. My enclosure have served me faithfully and assisted in my efforts to earn a bit of cash, so, IMHO, they don't owe me anything. Furthermore, this is the first problem I've ever experienced with them, although I've had ADS kits fail me in the past (ADS made good on everything, though).
Comments welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Caruso