Hard Drive with Full of Mp3s Not Accessible?

[IQJUMPuw]

Ok.

This has happened to me a few times before and I thought it was the problem of my hard drives but I just don't think that's the case anymore and I am looking for somebody to help me.

I have two 200gb hard disks formatted NTFS. (one seagate Ultra ATA/100 as master, the other Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 as slave) and my master is partitioned into three drives (50, 75, 65 gb respectively) and my slave with two (95gb each). I have all of my music collection on my computer, so my slave drive is full of mp3s (100gb +). I recently purchased the seagate drive because my other 160gb maxtor had the same problem I'm about to present.

Here's the problem. My slave was fine for a while. But somehow, my mp3 directories are not accessible all of a sudden. Windows detects it as an empty directory but there is no way to access to it. When I checked the disk space, it is not any different than before. After some time, windows would see the whole drive as "not formatted".

Again, this happened to me several times before and I thought it was the problem of my hard drives, but this time, it happened to my 2 month old Maxtor drive which worked completely fine.

Does anybody know what's causing this problem to my computer repeatedly, what I can do to prevent, fix the problem? And most importantly, is there any way that I can get my music back in its entirety? Thanks in advance.

 

[toant103]

to get the music back, try connecting the drive to another computer. Try upgrading your motherboard bios, upgrade your board chipsets

 

[CrispyFried]

The RIAA invaded your computer.

Your cable may be bad. Or old drivers as above. Do as toant103 suggests, put the hd on another comp.

 

[Genx87]

You have a shatload of mps lol

Thought I was doing good at ~25Gbs

 

[IQJUMPuw]

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[IQJUMPuw]

Thanks to those who replied. so far I've tried everything except trying it on another system. I'll keep it updated on that, so people can come up with a different solutoin.

 

[tami]

try to use runtime's getdataback and see if it detects the mp3s.

www.runtime.org is their website

 

[Homerboy]

IM guessing your OS is not allowing > 130Gb

 

[mehmetmunur]

Have you tried Scandisk? And Spinrite if scandisk somehow does not work.

 

[IQJUMPuw]

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[IQJUMPuw]

tami,

I've got my music back now with getdataback! thank you so much!!

But I am still left with a question "why is this happening?", as it seems it's bound to happen again, as long as I have my music with me. Do you have an answer to that? Or for that matter, anybody?

anyway, I'd like to thank everybody who's been trying to help me so far, tami especially.

 

[IQJUMPuw]

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[IQJUMPuw]

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[montag451]

How do you listen to 100GB of moozak?
Approx 100 000 minutes
1600 Hours
About 1 week of music??????? non stop 24/7??????

 

[amdskip]

List out your complete system specs including your power supply.

 

[IQJUMPuw]

Specs of my Computer

AMD Athlon XP 2500
1 X 512 MB 184-pin RAM Corsair DDR400 PC3200
Shuttle X SN41G2 Barebone System - nVIDIA nForce 2 IGP, Socket A 462, 250 Watt mini Power Supply,
NEC 8X DVD Burner
Seagate Barracuda 200GB ATA/100
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB UATA/133
ATI Radeon 9600XT
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

Hope this helps

 

[IQJUMPuw]

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[IQJUMPuw]

Update on the situation

It's been 6 days that I got my data back with getdataback and I just had my second breakdown of my hard drive since then. I know i can get the data back now, but it's just frustrating having to repeat the same process of running the software and copying to an empty drive over and over again. I really need to know the cause of this. Somebody please help!!

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: CrispyFried
The RIAA invaded your computer.

QFT

 

[xgsound]

Heat would be the first thing to eliminate. Remove cover and point 12" fan at "the works" for a while. Add fan if it works.

Intermitant problems can be tough to find, but I see 3 areas to check into. They are; A. memory, B. power supply, 3. mobo controller.

For A, run memtest from floppy or "ultimate cd" overnight. Consider upping the voltage to memory even if no errors discovered.

For B, To test ... disconnect one drive and run without it. The burner would be the one to disconnect. A 250W supply seems too small to me.

For C, I see you have Nvidia, I have heard of IDE problems from some people (I don't have one) . The MS drivers seem to be the most dependable generally.

The idea would be to make one or all of the changes indicated, and run long enough (2 weeks?) to see if the drive stays detected.

Jim