OT: HD Failure, could use some help..

[Gary Kleiner]

You shouldn’t expect to see those files again unless you go for a high-cost solution of sending it off to a company that specializes in data recovery.

Try putting the drive in the freezer for a few hours. Then, if it does spin up, start copying files like crazy.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Allen Zagel]

I have 2 Maxtor Personal storage 200Gb external HD’s here. I also get that “delayed write faiulure” message once in a while, but I don’t get any noise from the drives. Usually I just pull the firewire plug and re-insert it and the message goes away. The 2 drives are daisy-chained together.

I’m thinking one of the 1394 cables may be going bad. If that don’t work I just re-boot the computer.

In your case with all that noise, I think Gary’s right.

I just use these for storage and don’t capture to them. I’ve lost tons of video before using an external drive for a working drive, especially with these Maxtor’s. My capture drive is internal.

Only time I use an external drive for a working (capture) drive is with my laptop and I’ve never had any problems there.
Allen

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[Mike Kujbida]

I’ve heard very good things about a program called SpinRite.
It’s $90 though so the choice is yours.

[Arthur Bueno]

I experienced the same thing with a Maxtor 200 Gb external firewire drive recently. Got the “Delayed write has failed” message often when I switched on the DVcamera (also on a firewire bus), that seemed to confuse XP. It often recovered, but finally it didn’t and the bootsector and first MFT’s got damaged.
I ended up reformatting the drive and it works well again now, but I don’t hot-switch camera’s anymore and switch off the drive only after XP has shut down.
Or try a program called ‘getdataback’, Spinrite also seems to help, but it works from DOS, so you’ll need DOS firewire drivers.
You could also try freezing and immediately copy the files you can access to another drive, if freezing doesn’t help and the disk doesn’t appear to spin, drop the disk on a table from about 5 cm height and try again.
good luck

[Allen Zagel]

Better Chrck Spinrite. I purchased it when I had Windows 2000 and I found out that it don’t work with NTFS formatted HD’s. Only FAT. They may hae changed the program but ask before purchasing.
Allen

My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.com

Video site;
https://www.asxvideo.com
NEW! Shanghai MagLev DVD.

[Allen Zagel]

Guess I should have checked before “mouthing off”! HA HA I see where the ‘new’ Spinrite 6 does work with NTFS now. It is a great program and I highly recommend it. I’m glad they now support NTFS formatted drives.

Steve Gibson’s site has been at the top of my favorites list for years.

Soprry again
Allen

My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.com

Video site;
https://www.asxvideo.com
NEW! Shanghai MagLev DVD.

[Chris Young]

I had a similar problem some time back when moving a l75GB of material from one unit to another using an external drive. Thought I had lost the lot. Someone suggested trying ‘EasyRecovery Professional’ from Ontrack Data Recovery.

https://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

To cut to the chase it took around two and a half hours to interrogate the faulty drive and another couple of hours to recover the data, just make sure you have sufficient space on another drive system for the recovery. To my utter amazement it recovered 100% of all the data files, video, pics the lot in their respective folders, and more to my amazement it created a new folder called ‘lost files’ and when I looked into that I found files that had been deleted in the previous ten days or so.
To say I was blown away by the success of the recovery was an understatement. Seeing as now I had now recovered all missing files I thought I would give the drive another go as a test. Did a full re-format and ran the drive on non mission critical files and it hasn’t missed a beat in the last eight to ten months or so since the recovery session. Since then I have used the software a couple of more times for others who had drives that wouldn’t mount and in each case got all their data back. If the drive won’t run then this won’t help but if it does it might be worth a go. The deep freeze trick, overnight, is well known and sometimes will give you enough time to recover your data before it heats up too much.

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Chris Young]

I forgot to add EasyRecovery Pro is not cheap, the Standard edition lists for $499. There is a Lite version which will recover 25 files per session which lists for $89 so I guess it depends on what the data is worth and how much time you have to recover it.

Chris Young
Sydney

[Ken Mitchell]

I have been using ONTRACK DATA RECOVERY standard edition for about 2 years. Works great if the drive will spin. Made me a hero many times. Will not work with serial drives hooked up to your computer..