So I was happily tinkering and surfing the other day listening to something on itunes, lovingly arranging my digi-vinyl. All of a sudden, poof. Error writing to Drive X: or something like that, kept repeating the error messsage. The hard drive was in a USB external case, I think it probably got too hot as I doubt the case is too good at cooling. It crashed and burned leaving a stream of errors. The hard drive was now being seen as a malfunctioning USB hub!? I tried some quick fixes that possibly made things worse.
I took the drive out of its case and put it into the computer directly on the IDE cable (forgive me if I use incorrect technical terms, I'm a dabbling amateur). The drive was still not working, I think I may have been freakin' as the rest is a bit of a blur. I know I read a help reply somewhere that said delete the partition, make a new partition to correct the file table then use a data recovery package.
The long and short is the drive now appears in windows XP sp2 as 30gb rather than 120gb, I have removed the partition, and tried to add a new partition but it won't see the full drive. I have used a data recovery program which also recognised 30gb and have recoverd about 10gb of data. Unfortunately this still leaves another 50gb data unaccounted. I am still hopeful that with the help of you wonderful people my data will not be lost. The reason for this is that I used a different recovery program which detected all the lost files, in their original file structure including the original drive size, but when it came to recovering the data the program crashed out.
The drive is a 120GB Samsung SV1203N. Fortunately/Unfortunately it was my data storage drive, meaning my computer is still fully functional, but the important data is buried.
Anybody got any ideas? Thanks.
I took the drive out of its case and put it into the computer directly on the IDE cable (forgive me if I use incorrect technical terms, I'm a dabbling amateur). The drive was still not working, I think I may have been freakin' as the rest is a bit of a blur. I know I read a help reply somewhere that said delete the partition, make a new partition to correct the file table then use a data recovery package.
The long and short is the drive now appears in windows XP sp2 as 30gb rather than 120gb, I have removed the partition, and tried to add a new partition but it won't see the full drive. I have used a data recovery program which also recognised 30gb and have recoverd about 10gb of data. Unfortunately this still leaves another 50gb data unaccounted. I am still hopeful that with the help of you wonderful people my data will not be lost. The reason for this is that I used a different recovery program which detected all the lost files, in their original file structure including the original drive size, but when it came to recovering the data the program crashed out.
The drive is a 120GB Samsung SV1203N. Fortunately/Unfortunately it was my data storage drive, meaning my computer is still fully functional, but the important data is buried.
Anybody got any ideas? Thanks.
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