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pipsqueak

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O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« on: April 06, 2004, 07:50:20 pm »
Okay so my music folder says:


"\\music not accessible

the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable"

any ideas on how to fix this (while saving data)?

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Re:O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2004, 10:22:22 pm »
See if you can access the same files from Windows Explorer.

If not, check the network.  Sometimes resetting the router and computers helps.
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Re:O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2004, 10:33:44 pm »
matt

thanks for the reply. things have gotten worse since my last message  :'(

basically this is a firewire external hard disk attached to my machine. at first i couldnt access 1 folder, now its the entire drive. when i click on the icon in windows explorer it either says "invalid parameter" or "drive or files corrupt" depending on how many times ive reset the machine.

the bizarre thing is i can still see it in explorer and under 'manage' it says the disk is healthy

do i have any options (cheap ones that is) in terms of saving the device?

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Re:O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2004, 04:31:42 am »
What kind of motherboard are you running on? What I'm looking for is the chipset it uses. I had an issue with a firewire drive and updating the Intel drivers for the chipset did the trick.

If not that and you are certain the firewire connection is fine, then a chkdsk is your best hope.

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Re:O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2004, 09:46:09 am »
GHammer

its nothing to do with the motherboard (the drive is no longer recognised by friends pc's either).

i cant even get to it to do chkdsk

its currently cooling in the freezer! i remember reading that sometimes cooling the drive to below 20F can help. otherwise im returning it and going through the painful process of reripping 180 gigs of data
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Re:O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2004, 09:48:31 am »
Can you take the drive out of the enclosure and plug it in via IDE cables? If so, you might try that. I have an external drive but it is just a normal IDE drive in a USB cabled enclosure.
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Re:O/T - Help: Corrupt Folders
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2004, 09:54:26 am »
Quote from: pipsqueak on April 07, 2004, 09:46:09 am
its currently cooling in the freezer! i remember reading that sometimes cooling the drive to below 20F can help.
That actually worked for me one time.  I was able to get everything off the drive once it was cool.
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