Problem with my hard drive.
I'll try explaining my problem as nicely as my poor english lets me.
I got myself a new motherboard, so I had to format my computer. All of the windows installation was done on my IDE 80gb hard drive. Everything worked out fine with that hd.
On my other hard drive, a 250gb samsung, I put all my pictures and my music so that I could just plug it in and keep using it. (The music took hours to organize by alphabetical order - the bands - then put the songs in the right album folder and then edit them so that everything is perfect, so you can see why I can't lose this information.)
The problem:
When I click the hard drive, it says it has not been formated yet.
Things I've tried:
Since my old pc was xp sp2 and now it's sp3, I tried plugging the hard drive into another pc I have access to that has sp2. Same "this driver hasn't been formated" problem.
It will mean a lot if you guys can help me out. Luckily I wont lose my music since I have an mp3 player, but I will still have to organize it all over again and I will lose my pictures.
Thanks,
Zolthaian (Dan)
ps: ^-^ Nice to meet you all, nice forum!
Oh and this fits the "emergency help" because I need to access my files for an urgent, personal reason.
And honestly, I can't live without winamp. =D
I got myself a new motherboard, so I had to format my computer. All of the windows installation was done on my IDE 80gb hard drive. Everything worked out fine with that hd.
On my other hard drive, a 250gb samsung, I put all my pictures and my music so that I could just plug it in and keep using it. (The music took hours to organize by alphabetical order - the bands - then put the songs in the right album folder and then edit them so that everything is perfect, so you can see why I can't lose this information.)
The problem:
When I click the hard drive, it says it has not been formated yet.
Things I've tried:
Since my old pc was xp sp2 and now it's sp3, I tried plugging the hard drive into another pc I have access to that has sp2. Same "this driver hasn't been formated" problem.
It will mean a lot if you guys can help me out. Luckily I wont lose my music since I have an mp3 player, but I will still have to organize it all over again and I will lose my pictures.
Thanks,
Zolthaian (Dan)
ps: ^-^ Nice to meet you all, nice forum!
Oh and this fits the "emergency help" because I need to access my files for an urgent, personal reason.
And honestly, I can't live without winamp. =D
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Trust me when I tell you that yours was virtually perfect.
Icrontic has just the article to help you get your stuff back: http://icrontic.com/articles/advanced_data_recovery
Do you have any suggestions? I don't really know what it's telling me there.
@Kryyst: Yes, the 250gb is a Sata drive. I can't say if it's a spanned volume, don't know what that is xD (but I do remember I had trouble when I used it for the first time in the other computer. It was something related to linux, I'll have to check on the person who fixed the problem to give you a more detailed explanation of the problem I had before)
All I wanted was to plug it back in and keep using it like before. I just remembered I had tons of tv shows in it. :P
Hope that explains it.
No need to camp here and check every so often
EDIT: See attached thumbnail
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Oo looks like I'm already subscribed. Awesome, thanks Ryder!
Also this when it was new it was in linux format thing strikes me as odd. When a drive is new it has no format on it at all. The only way it could be formated for linux is if someone attached it into a machine running linux and formated it. To then get that drive to work in windows you have to put it into a windows machine and format it, which will wipe out any information on it.
Now when you used the harddrive in your previous computer did you have to use any special tools to format it?
Alright, I hit rebuild BS and this is what I got.
Sorry I took so long to reply but I wasn't home for some days and I got a bit distracted. I'm back now, so... yeah =x
So much work for nothing? This isn't fair.
Mm.. I guess I wont have music in my pc or any of that for a while. =\
How do you take music out of the iPod and what program would you suggest I should use to organize my music, so that I don't have to do that all over again?
I was doing like you said but I ran into a problem with the Mp3 Tag&Rename. There's a big possibility that I have songs like this
Dream Theater - Lines In The Sand (Album Falling Into Infinity)
And
Dream Theater - Lines In The Sand (Album: X live version)
So both songs have the same name, different album, length.. etc
So yeah, it says that I may trying to convert some files with the same names... Do you have any suggestions of how I can get around this problem?
Edit: I just noticed it changed all the songs it could except for the ones with maybe repeated names. I can now identify the problems easily, but they are way too many to rename one by one myself.