More Hard disk Problemos

mark2929 wrote on 2/14/2004, 3:17 PM
I was rendering a film from vegas to my hard drive when I realised I hadent checked the audio so I pressed cancel and that was it.

I can no longer access my Hard drive.

A Message comes up when I try. Asking if I want to reformat the hard drive AS IT NEEDS FORMATTING

Device Manager is working fine Although Scan disk is not working nad I cant defragment or gain any access whatsoever. I have another hard drive exactly the same and thats working fine. BTW they are both lacie 160 GB

I used partition magic that also says the drive is unformated I also downloaded some data recovery programs and I know the Data is still there so I have ordered another hard drive and will try to move everything onto that.

Does anyone know of a simple solution ?

Thanks

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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/14/2004, 3:32 PM
Internal or external drive? You can try moving the drive to another controller, and sometimes this frees up the info on the drive. This happens occasionally. If they are externals, remove the drive from the drive kit and plug in locally. This often helps. After you get the media off the drive, I recommend reformatting the drive anyway. Lowlevel if you can spend the time.
mark2929 wrote on 2/14/2004, 3:45 PM
Thanks SPOT Its An External Drive

I dident quite understand what you meant !

>>>>You can try moving the drive to another controller, and sometimes this frees up the info on the drive. This happens occasionally. If they are externals, remove the drive from the drive kit and plug in locally. This often helps. After you get the media off the drive<<<

Is this move the drive to another computer. I did change the drive letter.And I have used Partition Magic to look at it.

By remove the drive from the drive kit. Is this meaning unscrew the external hard drive remove and replace .You will have to excuse my inexperience with computers..

I wont get back to this till tommorrow now its 11;45 and I have to be up at 6

Thanks for any help !

ZZZZZ
RexA wrote on 2/14/2004, 4:54 PM
Spot may reply with more details, but I thought I would offer my explanation of what I think he was saying.

If it was an internal drive, you could try moving it to a different drive bus in the PC or to a different machine.

By external, I assume you connect with either Firewire (1394) or USB2. In that case, the box your drive is in contains a controller board to go between the external interface and the IDE bus of the drive. (At least all cases that I am aware of use newer IDE drives.) I think Spot was suggesting you remove the drive from inside this external case and connect it directly to one of the drive busses inside your PC.

I hope I got that right, since I am not really adding anything to the discussion.
johnmeyer wrote on 2/14/2004, 7:22 PM
You have an external Firewire drive.

Whatever you do, DO NOT re-format, and use any disk recovery tools at this point. Try it, if possible, on another computer. Use a different cable.
mark2929 wrote on 2/14/2004, 10:25 PM
Thanks RexA AND Johnmeyer I have a laptop as well so that complicates things a little more !
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/14/2004, 11:40 PM
Can you remove the HD from the enclosure, and take it to a friend's house to connect to an IDE internal bus? Sometimes the controller can be corrupted in the controller board, particularly with the older 911 controllers.
mark2929 wrote on 2/15/2004, 2:28 AM
Spot ,I dont know anyone else with a computer

"Sad Innit"

Most of my Friends Go down the Pub, and have trouble setting up the HiFi . They would think a Hard Drive is a determined Drinker.

Could this be a Solution..

Both my hard rives are Lacie 160 GB How about swapping the "Controller" It also seems to have like a tamper proof padlock emblem on the side.

Spot...

Could you walk me through how to do this. I know all advice is at my own risk but I just need the best way to TRY and save this Data. Its got a lot of my better films (Months of work) on as well as codes and paid for Programs on.

Thanks In advance for any help...
mark2929 wrote on 2/15/2004, 3:01 AM
Tom.. Yes. Thanks for the note of Caution.. I will be... Are you saying use a data recovery program like "File Scavenger" and transfer everything to a new Hardrive ?
mark2929 wrote on 2/15/2004, 5:56 AM
Tom I called Lacie who said they always wipe any hard drive sent to them For repair its one of their Rules. So to get it fixed I will have to take it to A Third Party. Anyway I tried daisy chaining it through the other hard drive changing the drive letters. No Success.. I think I must have somehow shocked the Hard drive and erased its file structure index or something along those lines... Im starting to think that using data retrieval may be the only way. I will try and see if I can get an outside repair first.

Sounds Expensive..

Anyway even If I lose this data it will only inspire me to do bigger and better..


mark2929 wrote on 2/15/2004, 6:14 AM
Tom I cant help it I like a good ol e disscussion A lot of things can be worked out that way in your own mind too. You can always email me. Did you get my last one. All this security On my Computer I dont know sometimes if anything gets out.
mark2929 wrote on 2/15/2004, 6:37 AM
Have you been drinking ?

Anyway some defininations...

Hard Drive/ Something over 20 mILES

rAM mEMORY/ Limited because of all the head banging

Mega bites/ Me in MacDonalds with 10 Burgers

A Big Memory CHIP / I remembered it cause it was reallly Big WHEN i ATE it wiv me beer

A Gradient map / A 3d road map

A Dolly

A Camera Micro phone / The Cammies Personal Mobile



mark2929 wrote on 2/16/2004, 3:04 PM
Just to update on the Outcome I used a file recovery program called file Scavenger cost me $40 But the important thing was it saved all my FILES

sO A BIG thank you to all the helpfull advice given...

No Problemo Now !
Redio wrote on 2/17/2004, 6:11 PM
I have a Firewire drive I couldn't get access to. Windows Explore frozen all the time.

My solution was to run chkdsk and then rebout with the drive on.

Then chkdsk found the drive check it and the drive was OK again.

Procedure:

Start>run> "chkdsk x:" , where x is the letter of the drive.

Then rebout and chkdsk vil run under the bout.

This was done in Win XP

Rune