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I am using JRiver and ripped +_ 3000 cd's to a hard drive during the last 9 months. as I went along I did back ups.
Yesterday I decided to do a new back up but during the night something went wrong as this morning when I checked my pc it did say "Back Up completed" but looking at the HD I could see that only +_ 50% was done.
But the more worrying thing is that my original HD drive does not show on my PC at all. I checked it on another laptop and it does not show.
A little light on the HD does show that the unit has power.
When I plug and unplug this HD I can hear some noise but it stops after a few second.
This my question, does anybody can suggest anything to try to get this 3TB drive going again, and then I would like to salvage the content
Your help would be appreciated.
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What backup software were you using and how was it configured? It seems surprising that you would have not gotten an error message.
How is your computer configured? How were the two disks connected? If they were external disks, then I would consider the possibility of a cable being damaged or an incompletely seated connection, as well as Abe's suggestion that it was a power supply problem.
If the new lap top doesn't recognize the device, it is not necessarily an indication that it is bad, as the USB "plug and play" doesn't always work. It may be possible to diagnose this further with management software such as the "device manager", using it to "scan for new devices". It is possible that the laptop may recognize the external USB device, but not the disk itself.
One other thing I would do if all else fails is to open up the external USB disk. You may find a regular SATA hard drive inside the case, with a SATA connector and a SATA power connector. If so, then it is a simple matter to connect these directly to a computer with extra SATA ports and SATA power, but this will require a full size computer, such as a tower machine and some expertise installing hardware.
If I were in your boat, I would spent the time to play around with these alternatives, because I would find the time spent struggling and eventually learning the necessary skills to be a more useful time than doing a lot of re-ripping. (My suggestions, above, as to possible alternatives, were all based on experience and a little fright as to the possibility that there would be lost data.)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
It was simply a transfer of files from and 2 hard drives (2 TB)
Re Ripping is near impossible as I sold most of my cd collection
I still consider PCaudio like a long road full of pot holes.
I also had many hassles with JRiver and meta data issues. I am getting better at it but still have problems.
I do regret having sold my cd's
Good point about opening up the disk case and seeing if the disk itself is SATA which is very likely. It is possible that the USB interface is shot but he might be able to access his disk via SATA.
I mentioned this, because it was a case of, "Been there, done that!". Not exactly the same, because I was using a Blac-X which puts the actual disk drive outside in a slot. As it turned out I had put the disk in upside down and its connectors were sticking out in the breeze. No connection. A senior moment, I guess. :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
It sounds like your source HD may have failed mid-way through your backup process.- Does the backup HD work and contain all of your music? I know your backup said 50% done but depending on the type of backup performed, previous content may still reside on the backup disk with only new content being backed up.
- You also said that your main HD LED shows that it is getting power but this is no guarantee that the power supply is good. Do you have another power supply you can try on your HD? How about using the power supply from your backup disk on your main disk? If you do not have another compatible power supply I would consider getting one to try.
Do you have a 2nd backup disk? I keep more than one backup around.
- Recovering data off a failed HD is no easy task. If it's the controller board mounted under the drive, you can sometimes swap it with a good controller board from another identical disk. Otherwise, there are data recovery services that can get your data off the platters but if you had a disk crash not all of your data will be recoverable. And those services can be very costly, mostly used by businesses that have critical data to recover, not a music collection.
Edits: 09/23/15 09/23/15
Thanks for you comments and advise.
The new HD I used for backup was virgin so to speak, but does contain about now 50% of the music that the drive that failed, thus a combination of that content + from a previous back up drive which had about 85% of my music should hopefully yield at least 90% hopefully a little more.
I did take the faulty drive to company that do data retrieval and the cost would have been about 1200$ with no guarantee that all the files
could be saved thus decided against it.
I am using a program called "Path too long pro" to combine what is on the new hard drive and a previous back up.
I believe there is also a ways of checking what music is missing
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=99633.0
So it will take a day or so to know exactly where I am.
I will also do a further back up so I will have 3 of them, better safe than sorry.
But the fact remain that PC audio can be stressful, but I suppose that the benefits are also obvious.
I am using a very simple system, with just a laptop only used for music, a Devialet amp that contains a marvellous DAC, and a pair of loudspeakers, so more simple is impossible.
Were you able to try another power supply on the 'bad' HDD, just to eliminate the power supply as a possible problem?
I suppose PC audio can be stressful but what you experienced was a HDD issue that can happen even in a dedicated commercial music server or a NAS setup for streaming. In other words, HDD problems are not unique to "PC audio".
I'm not familiar with Path Too Long Pro but I believe Windows Explorer is stuck with a path limit of 255 inclusive of the file name, even though Windows itself may have gone beyond this limit through new APIs. I guess Path Too Long Pro somehow bypasses that limit. Mac OS X has a path limit of 1024 + 255 characters for the file name.
Hope you get it fixed.
I was able to try another power supply, but no luck
Looks like I lost +_ 15 % of my music. (+_ 400 cd's)
I always been a little nervous about digital and computer audio.
I still have photo prints taken 60 years ago by my grand parents and I doubt that with digital media one would keep photos for that long
as the formats keep changing and mistakes do happen.
But I love the convenience of PC audio. Just need to take lots of precautions. I am looking forward to streaming as then there is no worry about loss of files.
I agree. Digital photos are a big problem unless you keep a constant eye on updating, sorting, and backing up all those files.... or keeping a bunch of them on a "cloud service"... but then you have to worry about making sure your successors have access to them.Unless I print the photos and insert them into a physical album.... or use one of those services like Shutterfly to create a photo album book, I tend to lose track of the pictures. I don't lose the pictures, I just don't do a great job of categorizing them for easy retrieval. The best photos go into physical photo books at my house.
I'm not too concerned about my music library. I do keep a couple backups of everything but if a disaster strikes, I still have all my physical CD media and vinyl records to fall back on. But if we're faced with a real disaster, we probably have more important things to worry about anyway! Like food, water, shelter, etc.
Edits: 09/24/15
I do regret selling +_ 50% of my cd's but at the time I felt that my system was pretty safe doing regular back ups and I needed the space
3000 cd's take lots of space.
I also got a good price for them which actually covered part of the cost
of my new amp.
I should have done back up at more regular intervals as lately I added
lots of music.
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