funkturnal
while the thing was writing. its a mini raid unit with 2 - 500 gig drives combined to be one TB. None of my pcs will read the drive. Any ideas on what to do? I don't care about the drive of course....i just want to get the data off & on to another. Any info would be appreciated.
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 12:47 pm
bonaparte
If the drive is physically damaged your only solution probably will be to send it off to a data recovery service. But, this is usually quite pricey check this out http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ also, on that site is a free trial recovery software.
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 2:11 pm
funkturnal
one thing is it still spins & doesn't make any bad noises :-)
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 2:33 pm
sounds like u had a raid0 striped... the probem with raid 0 is.... when one drive fails you loose everything, theres no recovery for a lost raid0.
sorry
sorry
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 2:39 pm
sbhoopsfan
where you performing any backups? If not it sounds like you may be SOL, you can send it to a data recovery company but that could be quite expensive.
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 3:17 pm
digitalwiz
ouch.....
i had the same problem.. dropped a 500 gig hard drive a couple of months
now it sits like part of a furniture.....keeping in the hopes that someday it will
Same happened to my brother's... just the other day he plugged it in and what do u know
he could detect his files... he immediately did a copy of his files..
Lucky dude.. so i check mine from time to time as well
i had the same problem.. dropped a 500 gig hard drive a couple of months
now it sits like part of a furniture.....keeping in the hopes that someday it will
Same happened to my brother's... just the other day he plugged it in and what do u know
he could detect his files... he immediately did a copy of his files..
Lucky dude.. so i check mine from time to time as well
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 4:20 pm
fatkatzdj
My video drive suddenly stopped working about a month a half ago. The bad thing is I didn't back up about a month of work about 3 hundred files. I have the original but it will take time to redo those so as soon as I get time to rip.
geposted Thu 14 Aug 08 @ 8:25 pm
lennyndegwa
No need to panic, and maybe no need to exchange funds ( no quoting me)....get a sof. called GetDataBack and get yo shit back man!
geposted Fri 15 Aug 08 @ 1:44 am
funkturnal
update:
no haps on restoring using software. I just packed it & I'm going to ship it on Monday to the lab. They will take about 4 days to check it out. I ended up going with One Trac after looking into others. It cost $100 for them to check it out & they will send me a list of the files that can be recovered.....along with a price. The cost will vary of course.....they gave me a nice window from 400 to $3900...yup! But its a 1tb drive with some hefty projects, ripping & converting that has alot of time involved. Its worth 2 grand to me for sure.
Now u may ask wheres my backup. Well this was my backup......but all my drives started filling up & I started adding files to my BU. Then i turned it into my main drive with the intention of getting another drive to be the mirror....that was a month ago. So now this :-) I already ordered my new drives & I plan on having mirror drives for all my main drives. I can't go through this again. One thing I won't do is get raid anymore. Chances are very likely if I didn't have the raid I would of been able to restore my files with a inexspensive program. Although raid has its good points I'd rather have a software program mirror 2 drives at a set time everyday.
So i'll come back & post the ending results when I get my drive back in a couple weeks. If I helped one person buy another drive to BU i'll be happy.
& thanks for all the help.
no haps on restoring using software. I just packed it & I'm going to ship it on Monday to the lab. They will take about 4 days to check it out. I ended up going with One Trac after looking into others. It cost $100 for them to check it out & they will send me a list of the files that can be recovered.....along with a price. The cost will vary of course.....they gave me a nice window from 400 to $3900...yup! But its a 1tb drive with some hefty projects, ripping & converting that has alot of time involved. Its worth 2 grand to me for sure.
Now u may ask wheres my backup. Well this was my backup......but all my drives started filling up & I started adding files to my BU. Then i turned it into my main drive with the intention of getting another drive to be the mirror....that was a month ago. So now this :-) I already ordered my new drives & I plan on having mirror drives for all my main drives. I can't go through this again. One thing I won't do is get raid anymore. Chances are very likely if I didn't have the raid I would of been able to restore my files with a inexspensive program. Although raid has its good points I'd rather have a software program mirror 2 drives at a set time everyday.
So i'll come back & post the ending results when I get my drive back in a couple weeks. If I helped one person buy another drive to BU i'll be happy.
& thanks for all the help.
geposted Fri 15 Aug 08 @ 8:35 pm
boricuas
Are u guys be any chance talking about Western Digital drives??? Cause if u are i have had about three go bad on me in about a three yr time frame ....STAY AWAY FROM WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIARS THEY ARE NOT THE SAME QUALITY AS THE OLDER DRIVES . I now have Maxtors and in my opinion they are the best..try using clone hd to copy the image of one drive to the other. as long as the drive spins and u are able to see the data on it you should be fine..
geposted Sat 16 Aug 08 @ 8:21 am
bonaparte
I've had too many Western Digital and Maxtor drives fail for me so I try and stick with Seagate whenever possible. Plus Seagate usually puts a 5 year warranty on their drives while most others only do a year warranty.
geposted Sat 16 Aug 08 @ 10:06 am