Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Which brand is it? I will stay away too... On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:58 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, > > Good news. I managed to pull some gobbledygook files off of the dead > drive. They made no sense. I had Brian look at them and they made no > sense to him. I chatted with a tech at disk warrior about it and he > spent about 1/2 hour working with me on it and he concluded that the > problem was that the drive was hardware encrypted and probably my best > bet would be to get the controller card fixed. I took it to the local > computer fixer and he said no way to fix it. I had another drive just > like the one I crashed so I pulled apart the new drive and put the > crashed drive onto that controller card and it worked! Am backing up > now. So apparently there is some hardware in the controller that > encrypts the my book essential drives which means they cannot be read > if put into a bare drive controller. I don't like that. > > Lessons I learned. > > Backup backup backup 3,2,1. > > Disk warrior seems to be a pretty good product. It was able to > res-erect the first drive that crashed. > > The tech guy at Disk warrior was very helpful, a little hard to get > online but when we connected he figured out the problem with the > second drive. Very grateful. > > I'm gonna stay away from encrypted drives. > > Leo Wesson > Photographer/Videographer > 817.733.9157 > www.leowesson.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]