Any ever have this happing

SHS · #1 04-08-2005, 10:29 AM

I wake this moning doing my everday thing.
I was going start edit a few show I record but some off reason I could get acc to to drive over network on 2 of 250 GB disk and 3rd disk had OS 10GB and 240GB parttion disk so checking my box it was getting error about the disk when try acc it so try Windows Explorer and it start give me error so I thougth some there was something wrong and reboot but it was hang up so I hold the power button and repower up but it was hang up at boot up Hmm I though so got out WinPE start it up and next thing I saw that 2 of 250GB disk was gone no files as in unformat and 10GB boot OS was gone as well.

Crashless · #2 04-08-2005, 10:55 AM

Yikes.

So, your system can see the physical disks, but not the partitions? It might be a virus that killed your partition maps - which are not recoverable.

Try getting a copy of Norton disk doctor, and booting that to see if it can recover anything. Then try norton anti-virus (or your favorite AV software).

Other than that, I've never seen that kind of thing happen to 3 drives at once unless it was a virus.

SHS · #3 04-08-2005, 11:54 AM

Well I'm not sure how it got a virus when it only had SageTV use as Server on it and I don't use IE or Outlook on it.
I don't know for sure if it has any thing to with my new cable internet setup which I do have a Linksys Router hook up I had move to new place so I had to switch from DSL to Cable.
Yes system can see the physical disks, and the partitions are still there kind like this
Layout and all disk are NTFS

Disk1
10GB C:\ OS was there and did have a few files but a lot of file was gone from it
240GB Extended Partition F: all files where still there, Was format at 64K

Disk2
250GB D: Was format at 64K
The physical partitions there but it look unformat after reinstall Windows

Disk3
250GB E: (Was format at 64K)
Same as Disk2

What make it so bad was all My Picture and Music are gone and lot show was on Disk2 that where been acrhive in tell I got the rest of the missing show to which dosen't make me a very happy camper today.

beautye350 · #4 04-08-2005, 12:39 PM

Before you do anything drastic I would yank one and try it in another computer and see if it can read the data.

HTH.

Regards,

Beau

SHS · #5 04-08-2005, 12:45 PM

I plan try that beautye350

SHS · #6 04-08-2005, 01:06 PM

Nope that didn't work beautye350 as I fig it wouldn't.

Crashless · #7 04-08-2005, 01:07 PM

Hmm. So you already re-installed windows? If the system boots, run disk doctor on them and see if anything comes up. Norton un-erase might also get some photos back.

Virus check everything before you hook things up to other systems though. You never know what might have happend. I highly doubt 4 file tables just disappeared on their own.

silkshadow · #8 04-08-2005, 01:36 PM

I agree with Crashless. Having two disks go off like that suddenly seems odd. Have you run the disk manufacturer's diagnostic software? Maybe the drives went bad. If so its not the end of the world, there is software to be able to recover data from dead disks. OORecovery is one off the top of my head. Try using this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. It comes with all the HD manufacturer's disk utilites on it.

SHS · #9 04-08-2005, 01:53 PM

I had to reinstall window in order to get to boot Crashless
The tool I used is like norton un-erase but better know as handy recovery and even it can not acc the disk with out format it first
Where can I get disk doctor.

SHS · #10 04-08-2005, 02:00 PM

silkshadow that was very first thing I did was run Maxtor diagnostic software which pass 100%.
By the way I can't fnd any thing on OORecovery do you know the ULR?.

SHS · #11 04-08-2005, 03:39 PM

Even after try a Disk Sector Editor there was no info on the disk like it had been wipe clean on Disk2 and 3 well I guest at I point in time I just have format the disk there no point in mess with it.

Crashless · #12 04-08-2005, 03:53 PM

Did your system check out free from viruses?

SHS · #13 04-08-2005, 04:20 PM

Yes I check the disk with AntiVir and other and all them said no viruses was found.
Maybe I shouldn't have record X-Files last night hehehe.

cummings66 · #14 04-08-2005, 06:21 PM

It's odd, but the exact same thing happened to me a while back. I have Maxtor drives as well and it checked clean as did yours. No virus activity, nothing had run amok. Yet, the problem happened. It's been a couple months now with 0 problems.

For me the only good thing was Windows and Sage was on another HD and it was unaffected, the only drive affected was the drive I stored the recordings on, and Sage is the only App that writes to that drive. Of course now the MyHD card writes to it as well, but then it was dedicated to Sage.

Not sure what happened.

ke6guj · #15 04-08-2005, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silkshadow

Maybe the drives went bad. If so its not the end of the world, there is software to be able to recover data from dead disks. OORecovery is one off the top of my head. Try using this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. It comes with all the HD manufacturer's disk utilites on it.

A data recovery program can be worth it weight in gold, I use "Get Data Back" from http://www.runtime.org/ . I've used to to get data from a HD that had a bad MBR, and one that just flat out died. The bad drive would show up in bios, but that was about it. It was a 200G drive, and I was able to recover about 100gigs of Sage recordings it totally died. It was 1 month out of warranty, and it now has a date with my .50BMG

Jack

SHS · #16 04-08-2005, 08:12 PM

Holy carp I forgot about that Get Data Back Tool

SHS · #17 04-08-2005, 08:43 PM

Thank ke6guj it seem that can read the drive even know I done format it hope lee I be able recovery some the files with this tool

ke6guj · #18 04-08-2005, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHS

Thank ke6guj it seem that can read the drive even know I done format it hope lee I be able recovery some the files with this tool

Let me know how it goes, I've never tried to do that. I've used it to recover fires that were no longer in my recycle bin.

Jack

silkshadow · #19 04-09-2005, 04:40 AM

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By the way I can't fnd any thing on OORecovery do you know the ULR?.

Sorry SHS, I should've included a link: www.oo-software.com. I used it to get data off a couple bad disks not too long ago. It worked very well. The problem with it is that it doesn't recover file names well at all. For filenames it can't get it uses random numbers and the extension.

SHS · #20 04-09-2005, 07:12 AM

Well ke6guj I did manage recovery 2 TXT files damn that was about all
Thank silkshadow I check it out

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