Quoting John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au>:
My Maxtor also played up last month, and I too bought a WD MyBook
replacement!
Fortunately, I don't use any backup software that was mangled by the
WD software, so the
transfer of data was only painful in that about 10% of the image
files were showing bad
reads: I used the old DOS command XCOPY to do the transfer, worked
very well in the
background. I was also lucky (or well enough organised!) to have a
second copy of the
image files so that I was able to replace those that showed bad
reads - nothing lost in
the long run.
The only issue I have now is that another external HDD now gets lost
from My Computer
occasionally and has to be remounted every now and then - possibly
the firmware in the
MyBook is interfering with it, but it's no biggy.
That's started to happen with my 1.5 TB WD external drive. My laptop
won't allocate it a drive letter on boot and I have to go into 'Disk
Management' to allocate a drive letter manually every time I need to
use it.
Not sure if its an OS issue (Vista) or a problem with the drive.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
The Maxtor now seems to be Ok, and I will use it for temporary file
creation where
necessary: can't rely on it for long term storage, of course.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf
Of Anthony Farr
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 1:01 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: OT - Backups & Cockups, Netbooks & MyBooks, Hard Drives
&, Dryers
To all who've responded, thank you for the sympathetic comments. I
guess I was correct to
believe that PDMLers would find data backup to be a topic close to
their own hearts, and
that a saga about it would find interested readers.
Something that I should point out is that the failed drive wasn't
the WD MyBook 1TB, it
was a Maxtor Basics Desktop 500GB which is about three years old.
The WD MyBook is the unit I hold responsible for shutting down my
Clickfree Automatic
Backup, thus initiating my descent into backup hell.
I uncased the Maxtor and tested it in a hard drive dock, and
although spinning and free of
any clicks it was absent from the drive list in 'My Computer'. Disk
Management couldn't
find it either. I took it to a data recovery service for a quote
(not worth $600 for two
months of uninspired unbacked-up work IMO) who said that many
Maxtors Basics have a
firmware fault lying dormant within, just waiting for some little
stimulus like a bad
shutdown to push them over the edge. The fault prevents them from
initializing on
startup. Maxtor users be warned.
This year is the first in my time as a computer user that I've had
any total hard drive
failures, and now I've had two (the Maxtor and my netbook). In the
past one or two of my
drives had developed bad sectors, but remained in service once I'd
run error detection and
mapped the bad sectors out of use.
regards, Anthony
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Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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