On Jul 11, 6:27*am, Jim <bojimbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To timOleary : sandbox as in sandboxie ?
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> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:03:07 -0500, JD <J...@example.invalid> wrote:
> >timOleary wrote:
> >> On Jul 8, 9:23 pm, timOleary<timothy.w.ole...@gmail.com> *wrote:
> >>> Windows XP pro it's a WD 500GB WD5000AAKS
> >>> I was moving folders and copying and suddenly all are gone. But if i
> >>> move up to my computer and run properties on the drive, the drive has
> >>> data on it.
> >>> please help
>
> >> hmmm no takers.
> >> Here is more. These are 500G HDDs
> >> At the time of the crisis, I had two external USB hdds connected to a
> >> sandbox PC which has essentially little more than XP pro running on
> >> it.
> >> I was copying the contents of the WD5000AAKS over to a new Green drive
> >> I just bought after the WD50000AAKS started acting up.
>
> >> By acting up I mean: this drive was in a USB external enclosure since
> >> I got it a year or so ago, and it got very little usage.
> >> After sitting idle for a few weeks, and getting turned on, this drive
> >> literally shut down Windows and as long as it was 'on'.
>
> >> The PC to which it was connected would try to boot, and shut down and
> >> try to reboot, etc.
> >> Same when connected to a different machine.
> >> Same if the drive was installed in a new external enclosure.
>
> >> Got the WD green Drive, and got an RMA for the WD5000AAKS.
>
> >> Then the WD5000AAKS began working again, and I decided to get as much
> >> data off it as possible and began copying everything over, and when I
> >> would complete copying a folder, I would move it into a been copied
> >> folder on the WD5000AAKS so I wouldn't keep trying to recopy the
> >> files.
>
> >> At the end of the process, I had one remaining file, that i copied
> >> over then when I attempted to place that last file in my 'been copied
> >> folder' all files disappeared.
>
> >> on the target drive, all the folders show, and I can open them, but if
> >> I check properties, the drive shows that it is pretty much empty. On
> >> the source drive, as I have already reported, no file/folders appear,
> >> but the properties indicate the drive has all the data still on it.
>
> >> on the source drive there were two items which had real long numerical
> >> labels. i do not understand what those were, but now am thinking they
> >> were indexes used by the drive to reference the data. I need to be
> >> enlightened and directed as to how to dig out of this mess.
>
> >I wish I could help more but if the drives fail when installed into a
> >different, new USB enclosure then it's got to be the USB port? New
> >drives, new USB enclosure, same problem? Maybe it's not the drives or
> >the USB enclosure. Have you tried a different USB cable? Or some type of
> >Mobo problem with USB ports.
>
> >Sorry to be the only "taker" with so little help. *8-)
didn't try swapping cables! I'll try that
sandbox=spare pc just wiped and ready to fill with junk!
thnx
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