Uh oh... help me save my data!

[Viper87227]

It would appear one of my hard drives decided to go the way of the warrior today. For some reason, it completly vainished from existance. No matter how hard I try, windows wont see it. It shows up when I first boot my computer, but windows wants nothing to do with it. Best I can summise, its dead.

Thats only supported by the fact that just two days ago, I had to temporarly copy most of my flac files onto this drive, and then when I copied them all back to the source location, they were all corrupt. I had never even thought for a second the drive could be going bad, I figured some rouge program ate all the files (I had been working with them trying to transcode them to ALAC).

Well, now I am wishing I read the signs a little better. I have quite a bit of data I would like to get off that drive. If anyone knows any way I coudl get the drive working again, just for a short while, I would really appriciate the help.

The drive is a 250GB Hitache Deskstar btw.


EDIT: Well, I did get it back. I am curious though... i removed the drive to get the serial number, and then put it back...thats all I did. Could it somehow be cable related? Could that corrupt data being copied onto the drive.

 

[greyghost]

you may want to consider that your partition on that drive may be having problems
I don't know the technical term, but the best I can describe it is that the partition crashed. I have had this happen several times. the most recent time was 3 hours after I decided to start backing up my data (i delayed it till later that evening, as one of my last tasks of the day and lost it all!)