I recently backed up all of my photos to an hitachi drive I bought that I put in 
an external enclosure (speeze). The hard drive crashed somehow in the middle of using 
it. I had another firewire drive hooked up at the same time, and it started giving 
me the "delayed write failed" but then all of the sudden I could no longer even access 
the hitachi drive.

I'm trying to recover the 50,000 photos on the drive. I have tried several trial 
versions of software to see what I can find. They are all finding the files, however, 
only one (VirtualLab Classic) is retaining the original file names, dates, and folder 
structure. The problem is they want to charge $100 a GB to upload the data to their 
server in order to backup (I have about 50GB). Does anyone know of any other software 
that can be used, or why the other software is not retaining folders and original 
names?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks. 

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re: Hard Drive Recovery w/ folder structure? Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 11:48 am Posted by Brandon (9 messages posted) Not sure if this makes a difference, but opening up Windows Disk Management software shows the hardrive as Healthy. When I try to access the drive I get "G:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect." Also, no file system is listed in the disk management software. Is there any way I can recover the whole hard drive? On Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 11:39 am, Brandon wrote: >I recently backed up all of my photos to an hitachi drive I bought that I put in >an external enclosure (speeze). The hard drive crashed somehow in the middle of using >it. I had another firewire drive hooked up at the same time, and it started giving >me the "delayed write failed" but then all of the sudden I could no longer even access >the hitachi drive. > >I'm trying to recover the 50,000 photos on the drive. I have tried several trial >versions of software to see what I can find. They are all finding the files, however, >only one (VirtualLab Classic) is retaining the original file names, dates, and folder >structure. The problem is they want to charge $100 a GB to upload the data to their >server in order to backup (I have about 50GB). Does anyone know of any other software >that can be used, or why the other software is not retaining folders and original >names? > >Any help would be appreciated, thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hard Drive Recovery w/ folder structure? Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 1:14 pm Posted by Matthew D. Healy (1255 messages posted) Have you tried www.ontrack.com as well? I've never used any data recovery service, that's what backups are for, but they have a good reputation. On Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 11:39 am, Brandon wrote: >I recently backed up all of my photos to an hitachi drive I bought that I put in >an external enclosure (speeze). The hard drive crashed somehow in the middle of using >it. I had another firewire drive hooked up at the same time, and it started giving >me the "delayed write failed" but then all of the sudden I could no longer even access >the hitachi drive. > >I'm trying to recover the 50,000 photos on the drive. I have tried several trial >versions of software to see what I can find. They are all finding the files, however, >only one (VirtualLab Classic) is retaining the original file names, dates, and folder >structure. The problem is they want to charge $100 a GB to upload the data to their >server in order to backup (I have about 50GB). Does anyone know of any other software >that can be used, or why the other software is not retaining folders and original >names? > >Any help would be appreciated, thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hard Drive Recovery w/ folder structure? Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 1:25 pm Posted by Patxi (1 messages posted) Last week one of my HDs was damaged by a short circuit and the message I got when I tried to access to it was "the disk has no format". I used PC inspector and I was able to recover ALL the files and directories. Of course, you will need another hard disk to backup those files, otherwise you could overwrite files you are interested to keep. PC Inspector is free and works as long as your computer BIOS is able to recognize the hard disk. It works under Windows, and sure it made a real good job. http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hard Drive Recovery w/ folder structure? Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 5:06 pm Posted by Matthew D. Healy (1255 messages posted) I do notice their web site says this tool does not support NTFS, only FAT32. Another data recovery program to consider is SpinRite from www.grc.com On Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 1:25 pm, Patxi wrote: >Last week one of my HDs was damaged by a short circuit and the message I got when >I tried to access to it was "the disk has no format". I used PC inspector and I was >able to recover ALL the files and directories. Of course, you will need another hard >disk to backup those files, otherwise you could overwrite files you are interested >to keep. PC Inspector is free and works as long as your computer BIOS is able to >recognize the hard disk. It works under Windows, and sure it made a real good job. >http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum