Back in late June I was going on happily with my computer, no issues.
I literally started a download of a large video file, went out to eat, came back, wanted to show a particular audio file to my sister, and was unable - the entire partition was suddenly and inexplicably inaccessible.
A local data recovery place has had the drive for 5 months and still can't get any usable data out of the partition. He can get raw data, but it's all garbled.
He says it looks like the plilst is broken and usually that is unrecoverable. He's still trying now and then, or when he receives new tools.
Details:
- Maxtor 200GB SATA drive on SATA 1
- Partition one "audio" is 57GB
- Partition two "video" is 140GB
- only partition 1 was unviewable; partition 2 had no access problems even after reboot, and I backed up everything there
- Windows 2000 SP4
- Abit NF7-S2 board
(more details available if they're pertinent - I don't know which are)
1) Does what the recovery guy say make any sense? Am I being bullshitted? Yes, the Maxtor was on sale, and I am probably going for a WD or Seagate now. (Thankfully I had an older backup, but still lost 18 months of new audio files, most of which are random free and legal downloads or stuff from friends I can't get anymore, or stuff I created. I'd really like it back.)
2) Speaking of which... does Win2000 have problems with really large SATA drives? If it had no problem with the 200GB, would a 500GB also work?
And I'm looking for a drive imaging program which will work in 2000 (none found so far, they all want XP minimum) so I can backup regularly once again. (I had Ghost with 98SE, and backups were regular, but that ended at the 18 months previous mark mentioned above). Which begs the question:
3) If I want to make image files, what is the average compression factor from original data? Ghost was pretty good, but others might not be - and since I want to back up to a seperate drive, I need to know what size to use compared to the total capacity I want to buy for the new SATA... can 400GB be imaged to a 40GB drive?
Thanks for any answers to the above questions...
I literally started a download of a large video file, went out to eat, came back, wanted to show a particular audio file to my sister, and was unable - the entire partition was suddenly and inexplicably inaccessible.
A local data recovery place has had the drive for 5 months and still can't get any usable data out of the partition. He can get raw data, but it's all garbled.
He says it looks like the plilst is broken and usually that is unrecoverable. He's still trying now and then, or when he receives new tools.
Details:
- Maxtor 200GB SATA drive on SATA 1
- Partition one "audio" is 57GB
- Partition two "video" is 140GB
- only partition 1 was unviewable; partition 2 had no access problems even after reboot, and I backed up everything there
- Windows 2000 SP4
- Abit NF7-S2 board
(more details available if they're pertinent - I don't know which are)
1) Does what the recovery guy say make any sense? Am I being bullshitted? Yes, the Maxtor was on sale, and I am probably going for a WD or Seagate now. (Thankfully I had an older backup, but still lost 18 months of new audio files, most of which are random free and legal downloads or stuff from friends I can't get anymore, or stuff I created. I'd really like it back.)
2) Speaking of which... does Win2000 have problems with really large SATA drives? If it had no problem with the 200GB, would a 500GB also work?
And I'm looking for a drive imaging program which will work in 2000 (none found so far, they all want XP minimum) so I can backup regularly once again. (I had Ghost with 98SE, and backups were regular, but that ended at the 18 months previous mark mentioned above). Which begs the question:
3) If I want to make image files, what is the average compression factor from original data? Ghost was pretty good, but others might not be - and since I want to back up to a seperate drive, I need to know what size to use compared to the total capacity I want to buy for the new SATA... can 400GB be imaged to a 40GB drive?
Thanks for any answers to the above questions...
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