Hi there, total newbie here. I'm looking for some help.
We have a home studio with a Fostex D-160. We also have a friends entire album on a drive, a drive which decided to DIE on us a couple of nights ago. We haven't told him yet.....
HELP!
Any ideas? We heard a rumour about putting hard drives in the freezer can sometimes make them work again. Anyone ever heard of this?
If we can't get it working is it possible to get the data transferred to another drive? If so, I've no idea how we'd go about doing that. What format is the data stored in?
Ergh - so many questions. What a nightmare.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
Sorry to hear that but I've had the same thing happen. Because Fostex use their own "formats" I don't know that recovery is possible using normal software type methods via a PC. It may pay to find a computer business who have recovery experience and ask their advice.
I have heard of the freeze method being used with some success for PC's so I guess it may be worth a try, I must try and contact my cousin who had data recovered this way and find out more about it........if I find out anything worth while I will post it here.
I have one drive that has apparently become corrupt causing the loss of one very good song (16 trks) but thankfully it had already been mixed down......it was this experience that caused us to track down and purchase a 1" 16 trk R2R recorder so anything of "importance" has now been archived to tape, oddly enough, that h/drive is still functioning BUT I have since had a second drive just stop working with no warning so I've got nothing to lose by freezing it for a while.
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure if I feel better or worse for knowing we're not alone.
We tried the drive in a different caddy, just to eliminate the caddy as the possible cause of the problem, no dice....
So the hard drive is now in the freezer. We figured things can't get any worse, so why not give it a go....
Will let you know what happens. I'll admit, my natural optimism is waning now though.
Thank god for our very own in-house electronics geek! I can hardly believe it, he got it working again!
He took the entire hard drive apart, resoldered everything and re-assembled it. Not something your average bod (myself included) would do.
Right now - it's working, so we're going to try and create a back-up fast, just in case it dies again.
on us a couple of nights ago. We haven't told him yet..... 
