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Western Digital 400gig Hard Drive Failure - HELP!
Scott Serio, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Colora | MD | USA | Posted: 4:08 PM on 08.21.09 |
->> Does anyone else just have horrible luck with WD400's? I am usually religious about backing up, but the past few weeks I was lax. Well, this is the error that my Apple Disk Utility gives me.
Invalid node structure
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
So there are two things. First, can I fix this and why is it doing it. Secondly, does anyone know of a decent way to recover the info on the external hard drive if this is an unrecoverable error?
I should have learned. So many troubles with these WDs, they always die. This one was just sitting there on a desk. It didn't move. I turn the laptop back on and WHAM, it can't read it.
HELP!!!! |
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Tim Casey, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | USA | Posted: 6:07 PM on 08.21.09 |
->> Knocking on wood, I've had good luck with WDs. I switched after a couple of LaCie drives died on me.
ProSoft's Data Rescue II software is very good and might be able to salvage your files. |
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Mike O'Bryon, Photographer
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Ft. Lauderdale | FL | USA | Posted: 8:25 PM on 08.21.09 |
->> that sounds like some errors I recovered with Alsoft's DiskWarrior. I've had some luck repairing drives with DiskWarrior that Apple Disk Utility said were "unrecoverable"
good luck
-- Mike |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 8:52 PM on 08.21.09 |
| ->> Western Digital had a bad run with a few different drive series. I had three 500Gb drives, all bought at the same time in the same series, die on me. Did some checking on the Internet and there were a few sites that talked about it. |
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Tim Casey, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | USA | Posted: 1:20 AM on 08.22.09 |
->> Which series were having problems?
I have six WD drives, three 1 TB, one 500 GB, two 320 GB. I think they are My Book Studio Edition II and My Book Pro Edition II. |
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Casey Templeton, Photographer
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Richmond | VA | USA | Posted: 11:07 AM on 08.22.09 |
| ->> get a drobo>>> http://drobo.com/ I have had way to many drives flake out. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:25 PM on 08.22.09 |
->> I'll second the Drobo. It took about a week to get mine setup and migrate the data. I had a Seagate crap out in the Drobo initially. Took the Drobo 28 hours to secure the array. Turns out it was one of the Seagates with bad FW. After flashing the drive it went back in to the Drobo and has been fine ever since.
I'm now setup up for dual drive redundancy so even if two drives fail we're still safe. 7 of the 8 drives in the Drobo are WD and all seven being stored off site are WD. Of the 3 manufacturers WD, Seagate, Hitachi, that I have used over the years WD have been the most reliable.
I want to throw this in too...
Last January I was running out of space on the data drive in over event server. It was late and I didn't have time to hit Micro Center like I normally would have. I purchased a 1.5tb SATA drive from Best Buy and came home to install it. When I opened the box the drive in the SEALED box and SEALED anti-static bag turned out to be a refurb 40 MB (yes MB) IDE drive. I knew I was screwed ( would you have believed me) but returned to the store. The manager on duty gave me 'the look'. He agreed to swap the drive with another so we went to the shelf where there were 3 more boxes. We open the first and found ANOTHER 40 MB IDE drive, box #2 ditto and #3 had a drive of unknown spec as there were no labels or markings on the drive save the re-furb stamp. Box #4 had a bonafied 1.5tb drive in it.
From then on I don't leave the store without opening the box at the counter. I bought 3 WD 2tb drives for the Drobe when it came in (M-C was out of stock) and the manager remembered me and understood what I was doing. Buyer beware. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 3:54 PM on 08.22.09 |
->> Tim,
All of the drives I had fail were internal. I am currently in the process of getting replacements - which is an interesting story in it of itself.
Sidebar: Sent the drives in two weeks ago - all separate RMAs and boxes. Received email notifications saying they were received and being processed. Yesterday in the mail I received a beat up box with loose padding and a 1TB MyBook inside. The paperwork had a correct RMA number and my address, but it was marked "Returned: Wrong item". So now I have someone else's 1TB MyBook, I have no idea where the dead drive I sent in went, and I'm fighting with a call center in India trying to sort everything out. |
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Ray Anderson, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 5:22 PM on 08.22.09 |
| ->> I agree drobo is a great way to safely keep your data backed up |
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Allen Murabayashi, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 5:49 PM on 08.22.09 |
->> i just got a readyNAS 2100 4TB RAID. great box, and very compact.
whether you go with drobo or some other device, the main point is to have multiple back-ups. that's the only way to avoid data loss. |
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