Frantisek wrote:
Hi, during an upload of most recent pictures, my old system made a digital equivalent of a chuckle or hiccup and rebooted. Subsequently, partition table on my brand new 80GB drive which hosts my photographs (most backed up, but not the last few shootings which I had to yet backup from it, including the latest I have - fortunately - still on the CF) got erased. It was FAT32 system. I have tried few utilities to peek around, and it seems a copy of the information (BR) residues on the disk still. Could some of the more computer-savvy please recommend what to do? How I could restore the second copy? I do not want to mess around much with either the free or paid utilities to not break something up before I know more.
Thanks a lot
:-(
Well, I need to revise my backup strategies... With film, I had just problems of user error - when I badly developed something because I didn't notice it was different film or something like that. Now I have errors I do not account for...
On a related note, my friend's 1 gig microdrive just died. It won't format in the camera, it won't format in the card reader. I have even tried USB drivers under dos to see if I could at least see the disk with some FDISK-like tools to perhaps wipe the corrupt tables and stuff (like zero-writing the disk and creating new one), but most won't see the USB mounted device as a disk. The MD just makes long wheezing noises when starting up, about three times, and than it stops. Has anybody experience with the same problem? Is the drive truly trashed from this description, or is it possible it is still a logical problem (corrupt part.tables, corrupt boot record,...)?
Good light! fra
http://www.partition-recovery.com/
/Henri
