I had an 80G hard drive that I used mostly for video capture and editing, that was nowhere near enough storage for the 18 hours of tape I shot on the Alcan Rally last year (there is a car/subaru related reference...) so I went out and bought another 160G drive last night.

I went ahead and plugged it in, captured a couple of hours of video to it and realized its a FAT32 format drive, when I really should have formatted it NFTS.
So no problem, I just copied over the files I'd captured so far onto the 80G drive, that seemed to work OK, but when I went to copy them back onto the (now NFTS) 160G drive, I got one file moved over just fine, but it hung on the second file- the old 80G drive had "I/O problems".

Now it seems to be completely corrupted somehow, I can't get the 80G drive to come up on this or any other machine, but I think it only has to do with this stupid FAT/NFTS data problem, I really don't think there is anything physically or electrically wrong with the drive.

So anybody know any cheap utilities for forcing my way back into this disk? the USB/device manager stuff all says its fine and working, but it just doesn't show up anywhere....


Sory for the off-topic rant, you can now go back to your subaru related discussions....

 

Maxtor MAXBlast.

 

No, I'm sorry but that is the Wrong answer,

Maxblast is for ATA drives, this one is USB,

thanks for trying though

 

Man- this is totally infuriating, I'm ready to take this POS hard drive out and fling it from the car at 70 mph, or maybe off a high cliff someplace.

I've wasted a good half day trying to get this thing to work

AARRRGGGGHHHH!

 

sorry for not paying attention to your post but you dont have to act like i offended you

 

Maybe Windows disk management?


Settings>Control Panel.AdministrativeTools>Computer Management


Under Storage, it will show youall the drives, formatted, not formated, etc.


you can even format USB drive this way. maybe it can help you tap into your drive.

 

From what I understand he's trying to get his data off the corrupted disk.

 

Yeah I've dug all around through windows, device managers, preferences, settings and all that.

and so far it hasn't gotten me squat.

Everything says the drive is working- except it isn't showing up as a drive anywhere.

And Trey- sorry if my tone was somewhat flippant, I was only kidding.

I'm seriously PO'd at the situation, but am really grateful for any help or suggestions from anybody, even if they don't solve it.

 

Try using Partition Magic -- I think your problem has to do with the Static/Dynamic disks . Windows XP Home Edition does not read from both, but XP Pro. does. What is your OS?

 

XP home

 

if you can wait til next year, bring it to my work. i have various utils...

 

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the OS + Dynamic/Static disks. XP Home can only read from the same type it's booted from, but XP Pro. can read from both. Try to find a trial version of Partition Magic and see if the disks are in fact different.

 

If this drive is strictly for captured video files -- then you should have just kept it at FAT32. It will make no difference if you use it for only those video files. If you decide to use it for more + boot windows/other OS's off of it, then it would matter a lot more. Pretty much FAT32 is for the older machines and older OS's - but in this case it wouldn't matter. If the FAT32 worked, then you might want to consider to format back to that system

 

The problem is FAT 32 limits you to 17 minute captures, with 18 hours of vid I'd much rather be able to capture entire tapes at one shot.

I guess I'll just have to retire this old 80GB turd and get on with life on the new drive.

 

Could you possibly transfer all your video files from the 80GB to your 160GB -- then capture onto the 80GB?