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Posted by JayD on Feb-28-2005 15:48:

Hard Drive Problem

This morning, one of my external hard drives shows that it has the same amount of space it did yesterday, but half of my files in a folder are missing. The files have to be there (the space is still the same), yet they're gone.

What I did was a virus scan (had some trojans), turned off system restore and rebooted in safe mode, then scanned.. Then this morning it was like that. I was going to do a system restore but the only restore date available is from this morning, which will not help.

Anyone know how to fix this? There's a few things I wanted to back up and hopefully I can salvage them before having to erase everything.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

JaY

Posted by igottaknow on Feb-28-2005 16:09:

Download the trial versions of a few recovery utilities and see what they can find. Then buy one if it can recover the files you need.

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Feb-28-2005 20:34:

Re: Hard Drive Problem

quote:
Originally posted by JayD
This morning, one of my external hard drives shows that it has the same amount of space it did yesterday, but half of my files in a folder are missing. The files have to be there (the space is still the same), yet they're gone.

What I did was a virus scan (had some trojans), turned off system restore and rebooted in safe mode, then scanned.. Then this morning it was like that. I was going to do a system restore but the only restore date available is from this morning, which will not help.

Anyone know how to fix this? There's a few things I wanted to back up and hopefully I can salvage them before having to erase everything.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

JaY

SHIT MAN. I lost everything on my harddrive a while back. It totally crapped itself. All I can say is: i hope you have DVD backups of all your important files!!!

Posted by jon on Feb-28-2005 23:26:

you ran scan disk on the drive? or for xp right click on teh drive in my computer, click properties, then teh tools tab then scan for error checking

Jon

Posted by smokeape on Feb-28-2005 23:40:

Norton Disk Doctor. Know exactly how you feel, some moron at work tried to back up a ton of shit on a file server where I run my database and filled up all the available space. So go figure, users went to update my data and got the message "Error disk full". It wasn't their hard drive, but the server hard drive they were linked to. They corrupted my database and I spent f*cking hours this weekend recovering everything exactly back to the point where it broke. I figured since the database was down anyhow, I might as well spend the rest of my weekend upgrading the database to push a change package. Everything went in place cool this morning, working better than normal with new features and stuff and I didn't even get a godd*mn thanks... Welcome to the real world!

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Posted by igottaknow on Mar-01-2005 00:56:

backup is your friend

Posted by MERLIN on Mar-01-2005 01:51:

quote:
Originally posted by smokeape
Norton Disk Doctor. Know exactly how you feel, some moron at work tried to back up a ton of shit on a file server where I run my database and filled up all the available space. So go figure, users went to update my data and got the message "Error disk full". It wasn't their hard drive, but the server hard drive they were linked to. They corrupted my database and I spent f*cking hours this weekend recovering everything exactly back to the point where it broke. I figured since the database was down anyhow, I might as well spend the rest of my weekend upgrading the database to push a change package. Everything went in place cool this morning, working better than normal with new features and stuff and I didn't even get a godd*mn thanks... Welcome to the real world!

[[[smoke]]]

Terradia ft Damona - Drowning in Dreams

time for a big ass SAN?

Posted by smokeape on Mar-01-2005 01:59:

quote:
Originally posted by MERLIN
time for a big ass SAN?

Time to get drunk again....lol!

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Posted by JayD on Mar-01-2005 03:41:

Thanks for the replys.

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
Download the trial versions of a few recovery utilities and see what they can find. Then buy one if it can recover the files you need.

Luckily this works the best. I recovered all of the lost folders that I needed onto one of the other hard drives, and backed em all up.

Sweet.

Yea I backup very often, but there are somethings that need backing up daily that you probably wouldn't want to loose eh.

JaY

Posted by igottaknow on Mar-01-2005 03:53:

quote:
Originally posted by JayD
Luckily this works the best. I recovered all of the lost folders that I needed onto one of the other hard drives, and backed em all up.

Sweet.

Yea I backup very often, but there are somethings that need backing up daily that you probably wouldn't want to loose eh.

JaY

glad to hear you got ur data back. been there it sucks loosing shit.

the backup comment was directed at smokeape. no one in their right mind runs a database without daily backups, unless you don't care.

Posted by JayD on Mar-01-2005 04:00:

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
the backup comment was directed at smokeape. no one in their right mind runs a database without daily backups, unless you don't care.

Hehe yea, I know. I meant in general (because whenever you have a hard drive crash and are worried about loosing shit people assume you don't back up).

I think dvdr was the best thing to come out for this. Backing up little 700 mb wasn't cutting it.

JaY

Posted by igottaknow on Mar-01-2005 04:05:

quote:
Originally posted by JayD
Hehe yea, I know. I meant in general (because whenever you have a hard drive crash and are worried about loosing shit people assume you don't back up).

I think dvdr was the best thing to come out for this. Backing up little 700 mb wasn't cutting it.

JaY

I couldn't be bothered waiting for dvd to burn. I have hard drive rack and tray setup that allows me to copy my entire internal drive in a few minutes.

Posted by smokeape on Mar-01-2005 04:12:

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
glad to hear you got ur data back. been there it sucks loosing shit.

the backup comment was directed at smokeape. no one in their right mind runs a database without daily backups, unless you don't care.

I'm not the SysAdmin. I back up daily on my hard because I don't trust them backing up daily on tape. I can't control it when users try to copy files which exceed file server space on the server because I'm not the f*ckin SysAdmin, I'm a Database Admin.

So there. Drink another beer...

Lol!

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