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The motherboard failed on a WinXP Pro computer I own and a friend
helped me recover the data onto an external Seagate drive. He showed
me three folders he had created where the data was stored on the drive.
We then used the "remove hardware safely" tool in Windows so that the
heads would park correctly, I turned off the drive by pushing and
holding the front power button, and then I unplugged it and took it
home.
The VERY next thing I did was to first install the Bounceback Express
software on another machine, and then plug the external drive into the
machine with a USB cable. Except, the three folders that my friend had
just shown me where he had backed up my data were no longer on the
drive! Other data that I had backed up to the drive from other
computers was still there, but not these three folders.
The two drives that were backed up to the external drive were my C and
D drives. C had two partitions (one with Windows XP and one with
Windows 2000 Advanced Server) and D was a single partition holding "My
Documents". No RAID, encryption, or Windows compression was involved.
They were simply two drives holding data.
How did this backed up data just disappear like that within an hour of
backing it up, with no drive activity or power to it in between? It's
almost like the drive never had data put on it, but we both saw it with
our own eyes and browsed the folders and the files were all there.
Here are the results of the filesystem check and surface scans I
performed.
Results for volume F: (FAT32)
Volume Label: SEA_DISK
Volume Size: 399.99 GB
Some files on the volume are open. This may effect the accuracy of the
file system check and result in false errors.
The file system was checked and no problems were found.
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SeaTools Online Complete Surface Scan
Started at 8:29:47 PM on 5/7/2006.
Scanning drive: Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
Controller : Initio ST3400832A IEEE 1394 SBP2
Serial Number: &
Capacity: 400.09 GB
Scan complete. No errors were found.
helped me recover the data onto an external Seagate drive. He showed
me three folders he had created where the data was stored on the drive.
We then used the "remove hardware safely" tool in Windows so that the
heads would park correctly, I turned off the drive by pushing and
holding the front power button, and then I unplugged it and took it
home.
The VERY next thing I did was to first install the Bounceback Express
software on another machine, and then plug the external drive into the
machine with a USB cable. Except, the three folders that my friend had
just shown me where he had backed up my data were no longer on the
drive! Other data that I had backed up to the drive from other
computers was still there, but not these three folders.
The two drives that were backed up to the external drive were my C and
D drives. C had two partitions (one with Windows XP and one with
Windows 2000 Advanced Server) and D was a single partition holding "My
Documents". No RAID, encryption, or Windows compression was involved.
They were simply two drives holding data.
How did this backed up data just disappear like that within an hour of
backing it up, with no drive activity or power to it in between? It's
almost like the drive never had data put on it, but we both saw it with
our own eyes and browsed the folders and the files were all there.
Here are the results of the filesystem check and surface scans I
performed.
Results for volume F: (FAT32)
Volume Label: SEA_DISK
Volume Size: 399.99 GB
Some files on the volume are open. This may effect the accuracy of the
file system check and result in false errors.
The file system was checked and no problems were found.
---------------
SeaTools Online Complete Surface Scan
Started at 8:29:47 PM on 5/7/2006.
Scanning drive: Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
Controller : Initio ST3400832A IEEE 1394 SBP2
Serial Number: &
Capacity: 400.09 GB
Scan complete. No errors were found.