I have a Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB in an external Firewire enclosure. The enclosure uses the Oxford 911 chipset. Until today the thing has worked flawlessly. Today I was backing up my D drive, having windows copy all the files to the Firewire drive. I left the computer and came back a few hours later. I noticed an error message that said something about "delayed write failed your data has been lost".
After I said "ok" I restarted and when windows loaded the firewire drives activity light was flashing way too much. Windows was giving me error messages for drive E and F (E, F, and G are the firewire drive). Windows stopped responding so I unplugged the Firewire drive (the connection to the computer, I left the drive powered) and restarted windows. I also turned off and back on the firewire drive this time.
Now when I look in explorer it says drive E is not formatted! Drive F and G appear to be fine. F has the backup which failed and I don't care about that data. The data on E and G is the stuff that might be irreplaceable. When I looked in disk management it says that drive E is "healty" but it does not say it's formatted. Is there any way to recover the data on that partition? All the partitions are FAT32. If need be, I can take the drive out of the enclosure and hook it to my desktop. Thanks for any help.
After I said "ok" I restarted and when windows loaded the firewire drives activity light was flashing way too much. Windows was giving me error messages for drive E and F (E, F, and G are the firewire drive). Windows stopped responding so I unplugged the Firewire drive (the connection to the computer, I left the drive powered) and restarted windows. I also turned off and back on the firewire drive this time.
Now when I look in explorer it says drive E is not formatted! Drive F and G appear to be fine. F has the backup which failed and I don't care about that data. The data on E and G is the stuff that might be irreplaceable. When I looked in disk management it says that drive E is "healty" but it does not say it's formatted. Is there any way to recover the data on that partition? All the partitions are FAT32. If need be, I can take the drive out of the enclosure and hook it to my desktop. Thanks for any help.
