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Failed Hardware
Hi Everyone,
I have a 150 GB Maxtor hard drive that I’ve been working off of for several years now. It houses most of my music and sound effects library, as well as some photography and various FCP files. I had a power outage at my house not too long ago, and ever since then the drive has not been working. It spins and sounds fine, but when I plug it in to my computer it won’t mount, and brings up the Disk Utility.
The Disk Utility is able to see it, and when I try to Verify the disk it says that there is an “Invalid B-tree node” and that it needs to be repaired. When I hit repair, it won’t complete and gives me a generic error.
Does anyone know anything about repairing this drive? Or possibly rescuing/retrieving the files from it? The FCP files on there are not backed up (unfortunately) and are part of my demo reel update!
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks so much.
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5 Replies
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“Invalid B-tree node” means that the partition volume is corrupted, it is generally not a hardware failure, however it is possible that a hardware failure could cause the volume to become corrupted. But usually not.
You can try disk warrior, but there is no promises that it can fix it. Reformatting the drive however should take care of the volume corruption.
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Most likely Alsoft DiskWarrior will be able to recover the directory damage on this Firewire drive successfully. In my experience this is what it does well.
It has a scavange feature that will reconstruct B-Tree link errors very well.
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Maybe I missed something, but won’t reformatting the drive erase all the data? At this point I’m not really worried about recovering the drive itself. I am, however, worried about recovering the files on it.
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Will it erase the data when it does this? I’ve used Disk Warrior before to defragment, but I’ve never used it to repair disks. I’m less worried about repairing the disk and more worried about getting my data off of the drive.
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Like I said there is no promise that disk warrior will be able to fix it, but you can try it.
Reformatting the drive till erase all the data, but should fix the problem, as long as there is not a under lying hardware issue.
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