It could have been worse. I've only had this drive since Xmas, and although it's the biggest, it's the one that doesn't have anything personal or irreplaceable on it. just a metric ton of audiobooks and TV shows that'll take years to download again.
"Then you run to the Apple store to pick up the Mac version of Norton System Utilities, then run back only to have it tell you "you idiot! You own a Mac--the file is fucking GONE!"
Is it an external hard drive? Two of my friends have experienced that their external drives can be unstable like that. I've been lucky, mine has never given me trouble.
If you go to download.com (I think) and download a program called "get data back", you might be able to recover the files. The backside is that unles you pay 70$, you have to recover the files one by one. Pretty time-consuming.
Are we talking movie-sized files or a 100 gig of, say, Word documents here?
What happened was, I rebooted, Windows brought up a message saying one of my disks needed checking, and did I want to do it now? I clicked no, and discovered that it couldn't see the drive at all. So I rebooted again and clicked yes. It checked the disk, and gave me a huge number of swiftly-scrolling messages mentioning things like orphaned files, and then I could see the disk but everything that had been on it originally was gone. Quite a lot of what I'd copied onto it since I got it was still there, but in renamed folders.
It's now running the check. It'd be nice to get some of the stuff back, but none of it's personal or irreplaceable... I just hope it doesn't mean the drive's about to die.
Do not "optimise" (or "speed" or whatever else it gets called) the disk! Otherwise we're talking totally unrecoverable.
If you search the folders, you may find the files with $% (or similar) replacing the first two letters of the filename... you can get them back by mannually renaming the files, one-by-one.
How long have you had the HDD, and how full was it? Every time you read/write the drive, the head bumps against it and gradually physical damage occurs resulting in corrupted files that disappear off the system (or it used to be that way, maybe they've fixed the problem).
Or, of course, you may have a data-eating virus/worm on your hands.
Nah. No money. And there was nothing irreplaceable or personal on there - a lot of downloaded TV shows and things, which I didn't want to lose, but nothing I can't get again. Thanks :D
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lizblackdog) wrote2007-02-12 07:08 pm
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I really hope it comes back somehow - maybe the computer's reading the hard disk wrong or something???
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Er...hope you're not on a Mac? :\
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If you go to download.com (I think) and download a program called "get data back", you might be able to recover the files. The backside is that unles you pay 70$, you have to recover the files one by one. Pretty time-consuming.
Are we talking movie-sized files or a 100 gig of, say, Word documents here?
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What happened was, I rebooted, Windows brought up a message saying one of my disks needed checking, and did I want to do it now? I clicked no, and discovered that it couldn't see the drive at all. So I rebooted again and clicked yes. It checked the disk, and gave me a huge number of swiftly-scrolling messages mentioning things like orphaned files, and then I could see the disk but everything that had been on it originally was gone. Quite a lot of what I'd copied onto it since I got it was still there, but in renamed folders.
It's now running the check. It'd be nice to get some of the stuff back, but none of it's personal or irreplaceable... I just hope it doesn't mean the drive's about to die.
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Do not "optimise" (or "speed" or whatever else it gets called) the disk! Otherwise we're talking totally unrecoverable.
If you search the folders, you may find the files with $% (or similar) replacing the first two letters of the filename... you can get them back by mannually renaming the files, one-by-one.
How long have you had the HDD, and how full was it? Every time you read/write the drive, the head bumps against it and gradually physical damage occurs resulting in corrupted files that disappear off the system (or it used to be that way, maybe they've fixed the problem).
Or, of course, you may have a data-eating virus/worm on your hands.
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Maybe you can take your disk to one of those shops where they can sometimes retrieve parts of your stuff...if it's important to you.... :(
Anyway, very sorry to hear this.
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