Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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