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Post by mobeach on Aug 22, 2014 9:42:59 GMT -6
Last week my DAW and plugin drive pooped the bed all of a sudden, I also store my songs on it. According to Windows my J: drive was empty (1TB HD) I was getting ready to re install Reaper, Native Instruments bundle, Omnisphere and several others, but when I booted up my PC a message came up "Windows is scanning and repairing J:drive" and now everything is back and operable. What could cause this? Apparently everything was there the whole time but Windows was telling me it was empty.
I even went into the Manage Storage utility where you configure new hard drives and partitions and it showed a healthy drive but it was empty. But whatever the case I'm not complaining.
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Post by matt on Aug 22, 2014 10:40:39 GMT -6
"Windows is scanning and repairing J:drive" I would replace the drive immediately and archive any irreplaceable data using a USB stick or some such. The drive may have intermittent problems reading data. Not good. |
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Post by svart on Aug 22, 2014 11:48:05 GMT -6
Yeah, it could also be something like one of the new trojans lurking around. Some of those get into your MBR so that they can avoid detection from virus scanners. Sometimes symptoms like this are because the first attempt at appending the MBR isn't successful.
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Post by mobeach on Aug 22, 2014 14:23:05 GMT -6
I thought about a virus, and wondered why it wasn't affecting the C: drive with the OS.
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Post by mobeach on Aug 22, 2014 15:17:03 GMT -6
It's a pretty new Western Digital Blue 1TB, just ran a scan and there's no viruses.
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 22, 2014 15:23:30 GMT -6
see matt's second post and DO IT MAN! Or at least back it up and continue to back it up.
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Post by mobeach on Aug 22, 2014 17:10:38 GMT -6
I'm definitely sending more stuff to an external HD now, but programs like Reaper and Sonar can't be backed up right?
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 22, 2014 17:29:11 GMT -6
you need to make an image of the entire boot drive, and put it on a new drive, it should function the same as the original, and you should be able to boot from it. Not sure how that "copy" works on pc's these days, i've been mac for some time now.
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