Howdy all. Wouldn't you know it I have a great shoot and then after I capture it onto one of my hard drives, another HD complety dies. :)
Here's what's up. I bought a WD 160gb a couple weeks ago. I installed it as 2 partitions (80gb each, D & I (eye), and I had to install their datalife software). All is well. 4 days ago I reformat my computer. Today, partition D stops working. I think it's because I captured 25gb worth of video on I and didn't install the datalife HD tools/setup after I installed windows. The drive shows up but needs to be formated (i'm not stupid enough to fall for that!). Luckly partition I isn't effected, so i'm getting everything off that drive onto my 80gb firewire (which was origionaly a copy of D, but I deleted that thismorning because I needed the space and hadn't had any problems) and onto my 80gb C drive.
Ok, now the really wierd part. All of the diagnostic tools for windows say D is empty. 0 of 0 bytes free (ie format me). Even when I boot up to Linux it says the same thing. They even call it Local Disk as the disk name. But, when I reboot chkdsk always comes on now. It says that it's called AV DIsk 1 (origional name) but that it's corruped and it can't scan it.
So does anyone have any advice? I've been working on it for several hours now and plan to put it in my firewire enclosure when i wake up. Thanks in advance!
Here's what's up. I bought a WD 160gb a couple weeks ago. I installed it as 2 partitions (80gb each, D & I (eye), and I had to install their datalife software). All is well. 4 days ago I reformat my computer. Today, partition D stops working. I think it's because I captured 25gb worth of video on I and didn't install the datalife HD tools/setup after I installed windows. The drive shows up but needs to be formated (i'm not stupid enough to fall for that!). Luckly partition I isn't effected, so i'm getting everything off that drive onto my 80gb firewire (which was origionaly a copy of D, but I deleted that thismorning because I needed the space and hadn't had any problems) and onto my 80gb C drive.
Ok, now the really wierd part. All of the diagnostic tools for windows say D is empty. 0 of 0 bytes free (ie format me). Even when I boot up to Linux it says the same thing. They even call it Local Disk as the disk name. But, when I reboot chkdsk always comes on now. It says that it's called AV DIsk 1 (origional name) but that it's corruped and it can't scan it.
So does anyone have any advice? I've been working on it for several hours now and plan to put it in my firewire enclosure when i wake up. Thanks in advance!