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VOODOO
Joined: 2002-05-09
Posts: 275
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: !!!DATA RECOVERY HELP!!! |
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The company I work for has converted to the new digital P2 format for all of our shoots. Of course, I did a seven hour training shoot for a hospital and I was backing up as I filled each of the P2 cards. Now, of course, I had a hard drive failure and I've lost about two hours of footage. I was backing up to a USB WD MyBook drive model WD10000H1CS-00. When I plug the drive in I can't access anything on it. It shows up as a healthy partition using disk management, but when I try to open the directory it says it's invald or corrupt. I tried accessing it via the DOS prompt and I got an error saying, "Windows cannot find '/e,/idlist,:944:2272,M:\'." I can't seem to get the damn hard drive out of the case, either.
Any help pointing me in the right direction to recovering this data would be greatly appreciated. |
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vhjay
Joined: 2002-08-01
Posts: 542
Location: Latrobe, PA (Near Pittsburgh)
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Which version of windows are you running?
Can you boot into windows, or does the drive die at startup?
Do you have access to another PC with internet access? If so, download "Hirem's boot cd" and burn it to disc. |
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VOODOO
Joined: 2002-05-09
Posts: 275
Location: Michigan
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vhjay wrote: Which version of windows are you running?
Can you boot into windows, or does the drive die at startup?
Do you have access to another PC with internet access? If so, download "Hirem's boot cd" and burn it to disc.
I'm running XP Pro.
It's an external hard drive, so I don't need it to boot. When I have it connected at start up my system takes forever to boot. I ran a scan disc on it and the result was that it was not a Windows XP drive. I have access to several PCs and I'll try to grab that Hiren's Boot CD, but I don't know if that will help me with my problem. My PC runs fine. I just can't get the files off of this external back up drive. |
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Ford Fairlane
Joined: 2006-11-21
Posts: 523
Location: North Carolina
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Runtime's GetDataBack has pulled my chestnuts from the fire a couple times when external drives have been unaccessible.
http://www.runtime.org/ |
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VOODOO
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Location: Michigan
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| I was able to get it to show up and the drive isn't identified as FAT or NTFS. It's as if it's not formatted, but I know it was, since I had about 25% of the drive full of back up files. This is frustrating as hell. I am trying to use this GetDataBack and it just keeps saying the drive isn't ready. It won't even recognize or communicate with the drive. I think I'm totally screwed here. :furious: |
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dokkendude
Joined: 2001-10-22
Posts: 1935
Location: Indiana
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http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
SpinRite is what has always "saved my chestnuts" |
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GGirl
Joined: 2001-08-28
Posts: 1975
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Western Digital HDD's suck. I can't tell you how many people bring those in with the same problem you have experienced. We use Data Rescue. More times than not (9 out of 10) we are able to get all of the data. If the partition table structure is invalid you literally have to do a seek and destroy to get all of the data back and it can take several hours... but it works. Several different types of recovery are available with Data Rescue. Well worth the $99 and cheaper than going to a data recovery service.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc.php?PHPSESSID=a27c7e9868d9fb901d554117d7cc9936
Good Luck |
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