[P1] Help: Maxtor ext. HD went gagga !

[Peter Nacken]

on 8/4/03 1:35 AM, Jack Rodgers at jackrodgers at earthlink.net wrote:

> 
> On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 03:48 AM, Peter Nacken wrote:
> 
>> Disc Utilities First Aid sees the drive as well, but the only option is
>> offers is "verify disk"  when I do that, I get
>> 
>> Verify Disk "".
>> Volume %@ needs to be repaired.
>> Verify complete
>> 
>> But still the option for repair is greyed out, as are disk permissions
>> ..
>> 
>> Pretty clueless on what to do now, but not willing to give up on 153
>> GB  of
>> data ..
> 
> There are drive recovery companies if you need to use them.
> 
> One try may be to run permission repair on your internal drive just to
> be sure.
> 
> Drive 10 may be more competent with this problem than Disk Warrior.
> 
That was a good idea ... But delivered funny results :)
Drive 10 sees the drive as a 191GB drive of which 77GB are used (should be
153 of wiwhich 150 are used)

It runs the test and volume structure test fails and it offers repair ...
Then repair fails and wants to run the test again ... I have been through
that cycle several times now ..

I wonder what data recovery companies can do that I can't here ... There is
one here in Fiji, but I doubt their competence, I fear they just repeat all
that I do, possibly just erasing the drive then, and charging me 60$ per
hour for that ... 

Any more ideas out there ???

Thanks