New Back-up drive went bad

[Rich Deustachio]

I bought a Lacie 320 gig firewire drive to move complete projects to after completion as a temporary holding area till I get final approval of the job. Well I went to save more files to it and it doesn't show up on my list of drives. I called tech support and they guy told me they have had problems with the drives not showing up and that I should try to unplug the power for 2 mins and plug it back in. Well after several tries at that it still hasn't shown up. They also have a firmware upgrade for the drive that is supposed to fix this problem but I can't install it because it doesn't see the partition. What has happened is that partition directory structure has gotten corrupted. The info is still on the drive but I can't get to it. Anyone know of a good program that will let me repair the partition structure without losing the data? Right now the drive partition is listed as unallocated.

[Rich Deustachio]

To update my ongoing disaster, I am runninf Easy Recovery on the partition and so far it look like it is going to be able to recover the files I need. It is going to take four hours to complete but if it works YaaaaHoooooo. I have my fingers and toes crossed. Wish me luck!

[Rich Deustachio]

Final update, Easy Recovery restored all 180gigs of data. All is well, whew.

[mgrusin]

Whew is right. Thanks for the report, will have to look into Easy Recovery. Q: any idea whether it will work on RAIDed drives? And I assume it's not one of those "needs to be installed before you have a disaster" utils?

-MG.

[Rich Deustachio]

It did show my raid of six drives as one so I guess it will work on them as well. I installed it after having the problem.

[mgrusin]

Cool, thanks! :cool:

-MG.

[Tom Wood]

Thanks for the info Rich. I recently 'lost' my external 250G firewire and then got it back by just turning it off and then back on. Prior to 'losing' it, I had turned it on a little later than usual during the bootup sequence. Now I turn it on right after the main box, and turn it off after the main box shuts off. All seems okay again, so I guess that's the right sequence of power on-power off.

TW