USB Hard Drive problems
Discussion
Being a paranoid sort I recently decided to start using a USB hard drive as a backup. However, it appears to have backfired on me.
I can no longer access the drive from my lap top and it causes my desk top comp to reboot continually.
I have tried a demo data recovery package to see if the info is still on the hdd abd it wouyld appear that the vast majority of the stuff is okay. However it appears that the system volume information contains errors.
Is there a way for fixing this without burning 30Gb of files (music mostly) onto cdrs and formatting the hdd.
If anyone can suggest a useful utility or anything else that would help, I would appreciate it.
Cheers.
I can no longer access the drive from my lap top and it causes my desk top comp to reboot continually.
I have tried a demo data recovery package to see if the info is still on the hdd abd it wouyld appear that the vast majority of the stuff is okay. However it appears that the system volume information contains errors.
Is there a way for fixing this without burning 30Gb of files (music mostly) onto cdrs and formatting the hdd.
If anyone can suggest a useful utility or anything else that would help, I would appreciate it.
Cheers.
When I plugged my USB harddrive to a Windows-machine, and later back on my Linux-Workstation, I always find a file created by Windows in the root directory of the drive called "System Volume Information". When I delete it, it will reappear, the next time I replug it into the Linux box.
I can imagine that deleting that file might help:
You may boot your computer from a Linux ISO-CD like Knoppix ( free download here: www.knoppix.org/ ) mount the external harddrive and delete the 'system volume information'-file from the root dir on that hdd.
Booting from a Linux CD will not change anything to your existing system, unless you do it deliberately, which you will (and want to), when you work with the external hdd.
I can imagine that deleting that file might help:
You may boot your computer from a Linux ISO-CD like Knoppix ( free download here: www.knoppix.org/ ) mount the external harddrive and delete the 'system volume information'-file from the root dir on that hdd.
Booting from a Linux CD will not change anything to your existing system, unless you do it deliberately, which you will (and want to), when you work with the external hdd.
I use a USB disk for backup too. I used to leave it plugged in and powered up more or less permanently, and it was OK like this for several months but got corrupted after the system crashed (for an unrelated reason). I couldn't find any way to repair it so in the end I reformatted it and started again. Since then I've got into the habbit of leaving it powered off except when I am actually going to use it, and I always unmount it and power it off after I've finished. No further problems so far ...
Bodo, you might well have a good idea there but I'm too much of a computer numptie to attampt it, thanks anyway.
GreenV8, I think its some sort of virus which has caused the problem as McAfee really fecks up when I try to scan the drive.
Ah well I'm building a new PC soon with a huge Hdd, so I'll just have to wait to transfer the files. Luckily they arent dead.
GreenV8, I think its some sort of virus which has caused the problem as McAfee really fecks up when I try to scan the drive.
Ah well I'm building a new PC soon with a huge Hdd, so I'll just have to wait to transfer the files. Luckily they arent dead.
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