Backup drive woes

[Haze]

HI All,

I was using a backup drive this morning but had to disconnect during the backup of one folder. I can now not access the backup drive and just get the error that the file/directory is corrupted and unreadable. Does anyone know any software I could use to try and retrieve stuff from the disk? It basically has all our kids photos on it, which is the really annoying thing? I did have something for my digital camera which worked well, I'll search the forum as I am sure I mentioned it here, but if anyone has any other ideas or software they can recommend I'd be glad to hear about it.

[robwhizz]

http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1

[Tony]

Or just get another drive and backup to that - that's the beauty of backups, if one goes down, you have a backup - or am I missing something?

[Shirker]

Get some new kids and re-take the photos?

[robwhizz]

Or just get another drive and backup to that - that's the beauty of backups, if one goes down, you have a backup - or am I missing something?

I got the impression that 'backup drive' actually meant 'external drive' as it isn't backing up anything.

Otherwise, I agree with you (although if it's just corrupted files rather than hardware damage just re-format and start again).

I learnt my lesson many years ago when I accidentally (don't ask) formatted my drive and installed an OS. Was unable to recover hardly anything from the drive and lost lots of photos. Now I keep 3 backups of my photos. One inside the machine, one on a NAS in the garage, and one off site (at work). Better safe than sorry.

[Haze]

Get some new kids and re-take the photos?

And go through all that again.... you must be kidding....

[Haze]

This "backup" drive is an old HDD I had in a laptop which died, will try the software mentioned and see if I can rescue the photos. I have them all on this computer, and guess I should make a backup of this too.... or two.

[Mr Anderson]

Grab a copy of Knoppix and boot into that, retrieve what you need, then reformat the drive.

[Matt]

Manufacturers provide tools that may help.

[sarahA]

Grab a copy of Knoppix and boot into that, retrieve what you need, then reformat the drive.

Easiest and probably quickest solution. I did this when my laptop drive corrupted several years ago. Easy to grab all the data off it and save to another drive via USB and then I replaced the drive.