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Hard drive problem
02-05-2011 7:55 PM
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The problem at first appeard to be that all the data on that drive has disappeared
When I click on the drive in Windows Explorer it says "This Folder is empty"
This cant be so because the drive is showing that 67.8GB is free out of 931GB only I can't access any of the files on that drive
Could anyone please advise me how I can get to access those files again?
Thanks
Re: Hard drive problem
02-05-2011 8:04 PM
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Re: Hard drive problem
02-05-2011 11:43 PM
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Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 8:46 AM
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http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
burn it to a DVD
put the DVD in your player, then boot up, ( your boot should start with CD/DVD drive)
when the Linux screen appears, you should be able to access your files that are on the HDD...
when you have finished with the Linux, you shut down as normal, and then remove the DVD to return to your Windows setup..... ( No Linux files are left on your computer unless you "install" it )....
Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 9:55 AM
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Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 10:04 AM
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Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 10:11 AM
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Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 10:17 AM
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Quote from: Strat arrogance
More likely permissions.
I'd bet that the "missing" data is in hidden or system files or folders that for one reason or another Windows thinks should not be shown to that particular user.
Linux is possibly ignoring that aspect of the file system.
Changing things in Folder Options in the Control Panel usually magically reveals what you're after.
Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 1:35 PM
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Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 2:08 PM
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Once you can see there are folders there you still can have "battles" with permissions and ownership, so depending what the objective is a less rigorous operating system may get you to your data.
Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 5:27 PM
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Quote from: HPsauce is a less rigorous operating system may get you to your data.
Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 10:50 PM
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Quote from: Hairy
Except, with my latest faulty hard disk problem lack of "rigour" didn't help.
Fairly normal Dell desktop system but with onboard (Intel) SATA raid and 2 drives striped (raid0?) one of which has a fault, flagged at the BIOS stage.
But it starts to boot (XP) but blue-screens before the desktop appears with an inaccessible device (disk 0 in reality).
Hardware tests (quite good on most Dells) showed the fault was limited to a single block, but was fairly severe.
The Intel utilities (direct CD boot) didn't want to know - disk damage too great to even consider repair/bypass - so I thought I'd try Linux to see what was visible.
Used a Mint DVD - it didn't even see the disks at all! I presumed it didn't have 64-bit drivers. Fair enough, lets try the 32-bit one.
No luck, equally useless at even seeing that there was any hard disk storage at all.
So I popped in a spare SATA drive and quickly installed Vista (Business) which had all the drivers and immediately saw the raid volume.
Anything processing it sequentially e.g. checkdisk would eventually hang but I could get into folders no problem.
The damaged area appear to be in a system folder so I "extracted" several hundred gigabytes of user data without a problem.
Linux 0, Windows 1.
And I might add, I'm no fan of Vista.
Re: Hard drive problem
03-05-2011 11:03 PM
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Quote from: juliasdream I am running win7 on a medion desktop computer which has a 1 Terrabyte external hard drive
Doesn't sound like RAID.
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Re: Hard drive problem
04-05-2011 9:57 AM
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Also your first post suggested it was a fault on the external drive not the internal raid set.
Re: Hard drive problem
11-05-2011 6:15 PM
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Well it was a permission issue.
I went to folder options and ticked view hidden folders and voila
I'm back in.
Thanks for the suggestion HPSauce
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