Need some serious help with firewire drive...

[Chris Shaeffer]

OK, this kinda sucks.

I installed linux on a free partition. WinXP didn't like the boot loader so I had to reinstall XP and will make a boot disk for Linux. All my information on the internal drive is intact, just needed to reinstall the XP system stuff.

Problem is I left my external firewire drive (with ALL of my audio and video work on it) connected. For some reason, Windows now tells me there are no partition and no volumes on it.

Linux never even recognized it, but somehow the partition information is no longer recognized by XP. I plug it in and XP recognizes the hardware, but no drive letter pops up in explorer. Says its working fine but there is no information, volumes or partitions on the drive.

It treats my linux partition the same way, but I know I didn't touch the external drive when I installed linux.

Anyone have any ideas for how to figure out if my info is still on that drive somewhere? And to get Windows to see it? I'm pretty screwed if not. 90 minutes of finished mixs :oof:: gone with no explanation...

Bummin'
Chris

 

[Chris Shaeffer]

Wow, lots of interest in this fun thread.

In case it ever comes up, I was able to restore all of my lost data with some freeware partition scanner. Fun stuff- consumed most of my day.

Oh well, at least it worked.

Chris

 

[mastahnke]

Glad you got your issue solved, as I didn't see your thread until you had fixed it. I have a question about firewire stuff though, is it fast enough to record to directly or do you just use it for archeiving? I am just curious. I would like a portable hot swap solution and it seems like firewire or usb2.0 is the way to go, but I still have doubts about throughput. Anyway, thanks.
--MIKE