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Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
The motherboard failed on a WinXP Pro computer I own and a friend
helped me recover the data onto an external Seagate drive. He showed me three folders he had created where the data was stored on the drive. We then used the "remove hardware safely" tool in Windows so that the heads would park correctly, I turned off the drive by pushing and holding the front power button, and then I unplugged it and took it home. The VERY next thing I did was to first install the Bounceback Express software on another machine, and then plug the external drive into the machine with a USB cable. Except, the three folders that my friend had just shown me where he had backed up my data were no longer on the drive! Other data that I had backed up to the drive from other computers was still there, but not these three folders. The two drives that were backed up to the external drive were my C and D drives. C had two partitions (one with Windows XP and one with Windows 2000 Advanced Server) and D was a single partition holding "My Documents". No RAID, encryption, or Windows compression was involved. They were simply two drives holding data. How did this backed up data just disappear like that within an hour of backing it up, with no drive activity or power to it in between? It's almost like the drive never had data put on it, but we both saw it with our own eyes and browsed the folders and the files were all there. Here are the results of the filesystem check and surface scans I performed. Results for volume F: (FAT32) Volume Label: SEA_DISK Volume Size: 399.99 GB Some files on the volume are open. This may effect the accuracy of the file system check and result in false errors. The file system was checked and no problems were found. --------------- SeaTools Online Complete Surface Scan Started at 8:29:47 PM on 5/7/2006. Scanning drive: Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller : Initio ST3400832A IEEE 1394 SBP2 Serial Number: & Capacity: 400.09 GB Scan complete. No errors were found. |
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Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
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snip Results for volume F: (FAT32) Volume Label: SEA_DISK Volume Size: 399.99 GB This is absolutely crazy - FAT32 as a single partition on a 400GB drive? Perhaps you needed to share data with a Linux / Mac system, but FAT32 is *not* stable on a partition that size. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts |
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Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
Odie wrote
wrote Results for volume F: (FAT32) Volume Label: SEA_DISK Volume Size: 399.99 GB This is absolutely crazy - FAT32 as a single partition on a 400GB drive? Nope, works fine, even tho XP wont create one. Perhaps you needed to share data with a Linux / Mac system, but FAT32 is *not* stable on a partition that size. Oh bull****. |
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Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
Odie wrote wrote Results for volume F: (FAT32) Volume Label: SEA_DISK Volume Size: 399.99 GB This is absolutely crazy - FAT32 as a single partition on a 400GB drive? Nope, works fine, even tho XP wont create one. Perhaps you needed to share data with a Linux / Mac system, but FAT32 is *not* stable on a partition that size. Oh bull****. Oh look, Roddles bites the hand that feeds him. |
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Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
Both the machine used to create the backup and the one used to read
the disk are running Windows XP SP2 and have NTFS formatted disks. If I run convert f: /fs:ntfs on the external drive, will that wipe the data or make anything inaccessible? From what I"m reading (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881/EN-US/) this seems pretty straightforward. Do you think it would make my backed up data accessible? Odie wrote: wrote: snip Results for volume F: (FAT32) Volume Label: SEA_DISK Volume Size: 399.99 GB This is absolutely crazy - FAT32 as a single partition on a 400GB drive? Perhaps you needed to share data with a Linux / Mac system, but FAT32 is *not* stable on a partition that size. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts |
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Seagate 400GB external drive wiped data with power off????
Folkert Rienstra wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message Odie wrote wrote Results for volume F: (FAT32) Volume Label: SEA_DISK Volume Size: 399.99 GB This is absolutely crazy - FAT32 as a single partition on a 400GB drive? Nope, works fine, even tho XP wont create one. Perhaps you needed to share data with a Linux / Mac system, but FAT32 is *not* stable on a partition that size. Oh bull****. Oh look, Roddles bites the hand that feeds him. It's ok, Folkert - I'll get over it. I feed my family and no-one else. Odie -- Retrodata www.retrodata.co.uk Globally Local Data Recovery Experts |
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