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[aphex]

Edit: nevermind... biostud hit it right on the head... Computer froze the other day and i had to do a hard reset to revive it...

 

[Jiggz]

Not necessarily. Sometimes it's just a corrupted File Allocation Table (FAT) and not necessarily a dying hdd. Run chkdsk/f.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
Not necessarily. Sometimes it's just a corrupted File Allocation Table (FAT) and not necessarily a dying hdd. Run chkdsk/f.

Fergot to mention, OSX.

 

[aphex]

I'm in the disk utility, running 'Verify'.

Unfortunately it looks like it got some of my pics as well

 

[aphex]

Verifying volume ?EXTERNAL?
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (576) not free
fix? no
59921 files, 3730016 free (5359443 clusters)
Mounting Disk

1 non HFS volume checked
Volume passed verification

 

[Jiggz]

Originally posted by: aphex
Verifying volume ?EXTERNAL?
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (576) not free
fix? no
59921 files, 3730016 free (5359443 clusters)
Mounting Disk

1 non HFS volume checked
Volume passed verification

Except for the cluster referred to in block 576 it seems that everyting is fine. I was wondering why you did not let if fix that particular cluster? Anyways, I'm not too familiary with OSX so hopefully somebody out here has a better idea. Goodluck.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Jiggz

Originally posted by: aphex
Verifying volume ?EXTERNAL?
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (576) not free
fix? no
59921 files, 3730016 free (5359443 clusters)
Mounting Disk

1 non HFS volume checked
Volume passed verification

Except for the cluster referred to in block 576 it seems that everyting is fine. I was wondering why you did not let if fix that particular cluster? Anyways, I'm not too familiary with OSX so hopefully somebody out here has a better idea. Goodluck.

Verify dosen't let you fix, only look at. When i ran repair, it didnt fix it either.

 

[aphex]

Anyway to get these back?

 

[biostud]

Could it be that you had unplugged the drive before "ejecting", so if the data in the HDD cache didn't get properly written to the HDD? or something similar

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: biostud
Could it be that you had unplugged the drive before "ejecting", so if the data in the HDD cache didn't get properly written to the HDD? or something similar

I never eject the HD, if the computer is on, the HD is on.

 

[aphex]

Alrighty, well for some reason, the HD is reporting that all the space is still used, but many of the files show as 32k or zero.

Anyway to get these back at this point?