Cyclic Redundancy Error

[scoobz]

In another ingenius plan I decided to move some music and photos to an external hard drive. mainly because my laptop was getting a tad full

Half way through I get the cyclic redundancy error thing. Lo and behold it now wont read some of the photos.... The music I'm not bothered about.

Cue some whirry click click whir from this wretched drive...

is it lost forever? any ideas?

Do I have to take it to some data recovery place?

any useful ideas please phrase them so a 4yr old can understand them, please? thanks in advance

[Plotloss]

Have the originals definately been deleted?

[scoobz]

i just dragged and dropped mate...

[Plotloss]

Okay, well the target files are probably ered beyond repair.

Google for Undelete, you maybe able to get the deleted files back.

Move is actually a copy/delete operation in one so you may get lucky.

[scoobz]

so.... trying to restore the laptop would be a bad move?





sorry i missed you at the weekend too, i had some bad news and trouble to deal with.

[Plotloss]

I dont know enough about System Restore to be able to say.

Try undelete first, if you havent already restored and then go from there.

What happens when you delete something is that the area on the disk becomes ready to accept more data, the data that was there doesnt physically disappear.

No worries about the weekend, if theres anything I can assist with in any way, let me know.

[scoobz]

nuts... some muppet here suggested making an image of the drive. (I use the term muppet in association with all septics here, he may be correct)

as for help? a good brief, 2 20 stone rugby players with a penchant for violence and 14 grand should cover it.

oh, and some data recovery software.

[Plotloss]

Just sent you a link to some software.

Oh.

[GreenV8S]

If you've drag-n-dropped files onto a different drive, it should have automatically copied the files for you (i.e. leaving the originals where they were) rather than moved them. Do you still see the original files? Which drive was it that had the CRC error? It may only be the 'new' copy trhat is bad? :finger-crossed-smiley:

Edited by GreenV8S on Friday 10th November 19:46

[scoobz]

hi green,

the originals went, maybe i didnt drag and drop... could have sworn I did.

bugger.

[TheExcession]

scoobz

scoobz said:

Cue some whirry click click whir from this wretched drive...

It's not an IBM Deskstar drive is it? Notorious to the point of being called the IBM Deathstar - google it.

I hada friend whose whole PC went tits up with one of these. I went through a repeating cycle of freezing it, then baking it an oven at 100oC then shoving it back into my box and dragging a few more files of it.

Eventually I got just about all of their data off it but it took days and days of repeating this nonsense.

Not an enviable position.

[scoobz]

wotcha Ex

Its a Seagate....

piece of crap... To the freezer with it!

Edited by scoobz on Friday 10th November 22:20