wirelessenabled
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Earlier this month I went and bought a Seagate 300 GB IDE drive ST3300831A to use as a data drive. I formatted it NTFS and copied all the data over to it from my old 160GB drive. Everything works fine for about 3 weeks.
Last Weds I come home and can't play any MP3s. Look to my data drive and XP SP2 asks me if I want to format the drive. WTF? Disk management shows the drive as healthy, active but with no file system on it. SMART shows drive has no problems. Seagate drive test shows no problems. There is nothing in event viewer except one entry about a controller problem which Micro$oft says is most likely a cable. Changed the cable and is has not recurred in the last week.
I look at the disk with Recover-It-All and it shows all my data still their (of course). Recover-it -all costs $79. Really the only stuff on the drive that I don't have backups of are some pictures I took off my camera the day this happened and about 100 CDs which I had ripped to mp3.
The CDs I can do over again. The pictures are a problem but not worth $79.
Any cheap/free way to get the pictures off the hard drive?
TIA
Last Weds I come home and can't play any MP3s. Look to my data drive and XP SP2 asks me if I want to format the drive. WTF? Disk management shows the drive as healthy, active but with no file system on it. SMART shows drive has no problems. Seagate drive test shows no problems. There is nothing in event viewer except one entry about a controller problem which Micro$oft says is most likely a cable. Changed the cable and is has not recurred in the last week.
I look at the disk with Recover-It-All and it shows all my data still their (of course). Recover-it -all costs $79. Really the only stuff on the drive that I don't have backups of are some pictures I took off my camera the day this happened and about 100 CDs which I had ripped to mp3.
The CDs I can do over again. The pictures are a problem but not worth $79.
Any cheap/free way to get the pictures off the hard drive?
TIA
