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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
So I rebooted my computer, 'cos it was getting very slow, and find that on coming back up, it no longer sees the external hard drive where I've stored all my data and, worse, custom analysis software. Which took me several weeks to write to its current state. I am hoping this is merely a small software glitch. Fingers crossed. [Eek!] [Angst]

[ May 01, 2006, 04:08 PM: Message edited by: King of Men ]
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Have you prayed for it? [Smile]
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
*sigh* I probably shouldn't have posted that.

I hope you retrieve your data. Hard drives dying is quite traumatic.
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Oh dear. Good luck.
 
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
Wow! Good luck. I've rarely had a problem with external drives. But once I ended up having to reformat and start from scratch. OUCH!

Have you got another computer you can plug it into to check it out?

Is this a USB drive? My problem with one of those was not disconnecting it (releasing from Windows) before unplugging it once. It wiped the drive's index and made it unreadable.

Anyway, I hope you have better experience than I did that one time.

Hopefully it's just a glitch with your main system that's easily fixed.
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
Depending on how badly you want what's on that drive, there are lots of data recovery places that can get data back from broken or corrupted drives.

Of course, the service can cost thousands of dollars, so...
 
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
 
You should go into the Device Manager (right click on My Computer > Properties... > Hardware > Device Manager) to see if there are any error messages. The data on the hard drive is probably safe, but if the enclosure isn't working any more, you could at least try to plug the HD in directly to the computer, if you have any free IDE channels.
 
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
That sucks..I hope you get the data back intact. I would have to have that happen to me, and I don't even write my own software. [Big Grin]


(P.S. backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup....)
 
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
 
i learned dat one the hard way.
 
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Whew - turns out the guy who installed the hard drive didn't set up the automounting properly. So the first reboot in a month or so does Weird Stuff. But the competent computer guy fixed it. [Smile]
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Hurrah for competent computer guys! Glad everything worked out.
 
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Was I the only one hearing Piglet in their head from the title?
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
That would be "Ohhhhhhhhd-d-d-deeeear!"

In that voice that I've never heard another human being replicate.
 


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