HELP NEEDED: Quick hard drive= DEAD now :(

[toant103]

I have a western digital 80GB special edit. It was working fine up until now. WHen i try to use window expolorer to check the content, it said

"drive not formated, do you want to format it now"


I have like 30 GB's of music videos on this drive. Any help would be great.


This hard drive is connected to my raid controller on the MB.

 

[Nocturnal]

Sounds like your HDD is dead or dying.

 

[The Stigenator]

sounds like a bad partition area or so..

take it off the raid drive, use something like lost n found (with another back up drive hooked up so you can transfer the data to) and recover...

you can format and maybe the drive will work okay.. RAID can be a pain for these things sometimes.

 

[NogginBoink]

run chkdsk.

and get out your backup tapes just in case.

 

[toant103]

it's connected to the raid controller but not setup in raid. The last thing i want is to loose the data on this drive. 5 years worth of music videos.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
run chkdsk.

and get out your backup tapes just in case.

when i try to run chkdsk, it said

"the type file system is RAW, chkdsk is not available for RAW drives."

 

[toant103]

no more western digital for me.

From now on, only Maxtor will do

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: toant103
no more western digital for me.

From now on, only Maxtor will do

tsk tsk how could you leave stuff on your HD for 5 years without burning it. 30 gigs is only like 5 bucks in CDs.

anyway try some software that can analyze and rebuild your FAT if possible. like norton disk doctor.